Sébastien Lecornu

A protester holds a French flag behind a barricade to block the Boulevard Saint-Germain during a blockade of Sciences Po university in Paris as part of nationwide student protests demanding better school conditions

London is voting, and the result could shape the U.K.'s energy future

The student rallies, now stretching into their third week after violent clashes with police, mass school closures and thousands of arrests, are expected to resume on Thursday

One-year-old infant hospitalised after being hit by firework as school protests sweep France

French prime minister to address nation as school protests escalate

But no one foresaw a revolt among teenagers, starting with one high school in a Paris suburb on September 17th before spreading across the capital and the country

The student rallies, now stretching into their third week after violent clashes with police, mass school closures and thousands of arrests, are expected to resume on Thursday

The student rallies, now stretching into their third week after violent clashes with police, mass school closures and thousands of arrests, are expected to resume on Thursday

Protests by French high school students over poor conditions turned violent in parts of the country on Tuesday, with nearly 500 people arrested and President Emmanuel Macron calling an emergency meeting with senior officials

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu defended the police response to student protests after one teenager lost a hand in an incident involving a police grenade and another lost sight in one eye after being struck by a projectile

Teenager has hand ripped off by police grenade during France riots

Hundreds of French schools close amid violent protests

The French education minister will meet with unions to prevent further riots after hundreds of young people have been arrested across France

The French government will present later on Thursday a 2027 budget that earmarks €63.4 billion for military expenditures, compared with €57 billion this year

On Tuesday, September 29, one of the two Paris marches of civil servants, called to denounce the erosion of public employees' purchasing power among other grievances, set off from outside a branch of Picard, the popular frozen food chain, a stone's throw from Place de la République

Pupils arrested after school protests spread across France

At the end of June, French public debt reached an unprecedented €3.596 trillion

In September 2025, Emmanuel Macron appointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister with a key mission: finally deliver a budget for France to reduce a public deficit that had become highly alarming

It’s unlikely, however, that any of the measures in the “modest” budget, as described by Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers, will see workers’ incomes increase by anything more than a couple of hundred euro a year come next January

As the French government puts the finishing touches on the two draft budget bills for 2027 — one for the state, the other for social security — Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has played an unexpected card to end speculation about the "difficult" plans, which are meant to find €30 billion in savings

On the agenda are discussions about the island’s reconstruction, more than a year and a half after Cyclone Chido struck

Andy Burnham compares Ukraine's battle with Russia to Britain’s fight with Nazi Germany

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced the creation of a specialised unit to strengthen the fight against cyberattacks

About 200 people gathered at the town hall in Le Porge, south-western France, on Monday, where 183 homes burned down

France's highest constitutional authority on Friday, August 14, upheld in its entirety legislation granting adults suffering from an incurable condition the right to assisted dying, while ruling that some provisions required clarification

Five ministers and five senior officials from a reconstruction task force that Lecornu has set up will also be sent to meet with local officials and business leaders still reeling from the disaster

That same network, reportedly linked to Russian military intelligence, also created and distributed a deepfake imitating the voice of journalist Edwy Plenel (founder of Mediapart), in an attempt to spark a corruption rumor against Glucksmann

Residents began returning to fire-ravaged communities west of Madrid after officials lifted some evacuation orders, while authorities in southwestern France warned a looming heatwave could reignite major blazes and force thousands more from their homes

At least one man has been killed in Spain and dozens of others have been injured, including at least 68 firefighters in France

Spanish firefighter Javier García has never faced anything like the record blaze raging near Madrid in his two decades protecting woodlands and rural communities

Wildfires raging across France and Spain have forced more than 300,000 people from their homes and stretched national firefighting services to their limits

Bordeaux faces evacuation over ‘apocalypse’ wildfires

Man killed in wildfire near Valencia

Mattinson and Ainsley, both affiliated with the center-left Progressive Policy Institute, have conducted focus groups with persuadable voters across Europe, the United States and Australia

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron asked his Minister for Ecological Transition Monique Barbut to stay in her role after she resigned on Wednesday morning

France's new assisted dying law was adopted by the Assemblée Nationale on Wednesday, July 15

This format, first launched in 1996 during Moroccan King Hassan II's (1929-1999) state visit to France, has been met with mixed success: Fourteen such meetings took place between 1996 and 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted their regularity

These are modest steps in Europe’s high-stakes race to catch up to America and China in the global sprint for digital independence

French MPs back assisted dying despite government’s jitters

Parched land drive new inferno in Herault and Aude regions amid heatwave

But the prime minister and his team have been the subject of intense criticism over preparedness for heat so extreme that mainland France recorded its highest average daily temperature ever for three consecutive days

But the prime minister and his team have been the subject of intense criticism over preparedness for heat so extreme that mainland France recorded its highest average daily temperature ever for three consecutive days

Europe braced Wednesday for another day of a sweltering heatwave that has smashed records, left tens of thousands of people without power and sent air conditioner sales zooming in a continent unused and ill equipped to handle searing heat

The man was placed in isolation at hospital as soon as his flight landed

It follows the death of 11 year-old Lyhanna shook the country and led to accusations of serious systemic failures in the justice system

A heat wave sweeping across Europe is turning temperatures lethal, with more than 40 deaths reported since June 18 in a region where extreme heat kills an estimated 175,000 people each year—roughly four times the toll of gun deaths in the United States

France introduces alcohol ban as heatwave grips Europe

Paris is preparing for a street party of unprecedented scale on Sunday, as more than 2 million people are expected to gather for the Fête de la Musique amid a huge influx of music fans from the UK and warnings of record temperatures

With both the Vivatech technology fair and the Eurosatory defense show being held simultaneously — the former in Paris, the latter in the northeastern suburb Villepinte — the timing was ideal for the prime minister to announce a decision with major implications for France's digital and security sovereignty

By this time next year, France will have a new president and Emmanuel Macron, who is constitutionally barred from serving more than two consecutive terms, will have left after a decade in the Élysée Palace

France Will Add €710 Million in Aid to Offset High Energy Costs

The news triggered more fear after a Dutch hospital quarantined 12 staff members in a preventive measure after blood and urine from a hantavirus patient were handled without observing strict protocols

The Britons, who were evacuated on Monday (May 11) from the ill-fated vessel at the centre of an international healthcare scandal, have been required to undertake a 42-day isolation period upon returning to the UK, beginning with a 72-hour stay at Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral

He also pointed to a worsening crisis in the Russian economy

Since the outbreak of the conflict, the French government has allocated 130 million euros (141 million U.S. dollars) in support

He drew a clear conclusion: Government bodies will have to make cuts to meet the public deficit target for 2026, set at 5% of gross domestic product (GDP)

The war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz — through which about one fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas flows — has seen fuel costs rise sharply in the past month

The war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz — through which about one fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas flows — has seen fuel costs rise sharply in the past month

The war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz — through which about one fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas flows — has seen fuel costs rise sharply in the past month

His comments come after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast the UK to face the greatest economic hit from Iran war out of all other major countries