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The ECB president must address her homeland's mounting debt crisis while keeping deposit rates at 2 percent and avoiding any signal of market intervention.
Sébastien Lecornu becomes France's fourth prime minister in 14 months while Bloquons Tout! protests spread and Russian drones penetrate Polish airspace, raising questions about both domestic stability and European security.
The National Assembly voted 364 to 194 to topple François Bayrou's government, leaving Emmanuel Macron to find a replacement who can survive a fractured parliament and a debt crisis that has pushed borrowing to 114 per cent of GDP.
ECB president says French bond spreads have risen but country does not meet IMF bailout conditions, while warning Trump's attacks on Fed independence threaten global economy
National Rally leader calculates that forcing new elections serves her party better than letting Macron's camp own an unpopular €43.8 billion austerity package.
Prime minister faces near-certain defeat on 8 September with only 210 government deputies against 353 opposition MPs, leaving France facing its third prime minister in under a year.
French prime minister calls September 8 vote on spending cuts as opposition parties from left and right unite against him, risking third government collapse in a year
Centrist deputies argue the far right's exclusion from the National Assembly Bureau fuels victimhood narratives, but the move would further erode the firewall maintained across Europe.
One year after his gamble backfired, the French president again holds the constitutional power to dissolve parliament. Allies say he is tempted, despite public denials.
Far-right party signals it may withdraw support for minority government, raising prospect of fresh political crisis just four months after Barnier's fall
From Germany to Austria, mainstream conservatives are adopting hardline immigration platforms to stem voter losses, but evidence shows the strategy only strengthens the radical right.
Far-right National Rally and centre-left Socialists refuse to back far-left motion, leaving prime minister dependent on case-by-case support with no legislative majority.
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