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Immediately after the vote, Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau, appointed only 6 months earlier, resigned to protest against the bill's passage and the potential reform of the AME system [25] while Higher Education Minister Sylvie Retailleau offered her resignation but she remained in the government after Macron and Borne gave her reassurances ...
Paris is France's largest urban economy (and the world's third). In terms of income, important inequalities can be observed among the French départements. According to the 2008 statistics of the INSEE, the Yvelines is the highest income department of the country with an average income of €4,750 per month.
France's government collapsed Wednesday after Prime Minister Michel Barnier was forced out in a no-confidence vote in Parliament, reigniting a summertime political crisis for the country as it ...
France has one of the lowest retirement ages for an industrialised country, and spends more than most countries on pensions, with it amounting to almost 14% of economic output. [6] France's pension system is largely built on a "pay-as-you-go structure"; both workers and employers "are assessed mandatory payroll taxes that are used to fund ...
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has been forced to resign just three months into his term, after lawmakers on the left and the right united to support a no-confidence motion and plunge the ...
France plans to spend 100 billion euros ($118 billion) to pull its economy out of a deep coronavirus-induced slump, signalling renewed efforts by President Emmanuel Macron to push through a pro ...
Climate change will also cause economic losses in France, particularly in the agriculture and fisheries sectors. [6] [7] The Paris Agreement on climate change, under France's presidency, was negotiated and agreed in 2015 at COP21. France subsequently set a law to have a net zero atmospheric greenhouse gas emission (carbon neutrality) by 2050. [8]
France's government presented its 2021 budget, a plan that aims to rescue the country's beleaguered economy from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. France to release $49 billion in economic ...