France’s Prime Minister Francois Bayrou will deliver a crucial policy speech to lawmakers on Tuesday in his fight to stay in power and secure a plan to urgently repair the country’s creaking public finances.

Macron, who offered a mea culpa in his New Year address over the political instability created by his surprise decision to call snap elections, has warned the French needed to wor

France's prime minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday warned parliament about his country's spiralling debt and said he was ready to reopen talks on pension reform, hoping to avoid a no-confidence vote that could prolong the country's rumbling political crisis.