In order to reduce France's record national debt, Prime Minister François Bayrou presented a plan to cancel two public holidays, reduce the number of civil servants and merge public authorities. In ...

You will have noticed that, in order to reduce France’s €3.3 trillion debt (to which €5,000 is being added every second, apparently), French PM François Bayrou has proposed, among other measures, that ...

French PM's Plan to Scrap Two Holidays Stirs Outcry, and Memories of a Toppled Predecessor By Gabriel Stargardter and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou wants to ...

French news junkies have looked on in horror over the past few months as America’s most august papers slashed staffs and in some cases morphed into exclusively online entities to weather the worst ...

French Government Sets Sept 30 Deadline for Talks on Scrapping Two Holidays, Les Echos Reports PARIS (Reuters) -Negotiations over scrapping two French national holidays will need to be concluded by ...

France will keep its public holidays. The new prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, announced on Saturday that he will scrap proposals from his predecessor to eliminate two public holidays as part of a ...

Proposal to secularize the civic calendar prompts controversy. Debates about the place of Christianity in public life regularly resurface in Europe. Recently, after the Pentecost Monday holiday, the ...

Public holidays are referred to as national holidays in France and are also called fêtes or jours fériés. They are very important to the French as they firmly believe in a good life-work balance and ...

France has one of the shortest school years in the world. Photo by XAVIER LEOTY / AFP If you want to reliably infuriate teachers in France, simply suggest cutting the length of the school holidays - ...