The vote clears the way for final approval of France’s 2025 budget, easing concerns about the country’s political turmoil — ...

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou faces a new no-confidence motion on Monday after invoking Article 49.3 of the Constitution to push through the second part of the 2025 Social Security budget.

In total, 128 lawmakers voted in favour of the first motion, well short of the 289 votes that were needed. Far-left lawmakers had introduced two no-confidence motions against the prime minister ...

Meanwhile Finance Minister Eric Lombard said the failure of the no-confidence motion was "a good thing" for France. The budget aims to reduce the deficit, raise taxes on large firms and the ...

Francois Bayrou, French prime minister, during the public session to discuss and vote on the no-confidence motion tabled by the left-wing group LFI, at the Palais Bourbon in the hemicycle of the ...

A faculty no-confidence carries no legal authority or ability to remove ... college’s 254-person faculty brought a no-confidence motion Jan. 22. Roughly 190 professors attended the nearly ...