France faces emergency stopgap legislation to avoid a government shutdown after lawmakers abandoned 2026 budget talks on Friday, failing to agree on a compromise bill.

French lawmakers passed a special law on Tuesday to avoid a shutdown until a budget is adopted. Negotiations will resume in January.

PARIS -- France’s fractured parliament is debating an emergency bill Tuesday designed to prevent a U.S.-style government shutdown next week, after negotiations on a 2026 budget collapsed.

The French National Assembly approved a stopgap budget law for 2026 to keep the state running into January after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on the full fiscal plan.

France lost one icon in Brigitte Bardot but gained a much less controversial one when George Clooney — along with his wife, Amal, and their twins — was awarded French citizenship last weekend. Though we tend to think of Clooney as permanently living in a big house on Lake Como,

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to build a new aircraft carrier. The vessel will have the capacity for 30 fighter jets and 2,000 sailors.

Here is France's World Cup group stage opponents, which stadiums they will play at, and the times for the games.

As it is in so many places, Christmas in France is all about family, friends, and food. While it’s generally a low-key affair marked by gatherings of relatives and treats for children, it also has the culinary high point of the year: Le Réveillon de Noël (Christmas Eve dinner).

In the biting cold, homeless friends Danish and Sylvain walked briskly in the dark towards a hot meal distribution point, rubbing their hands together, their huge backpacks weighing down on their shoulders. "If you stop, the cold seeps into your bones.

That’s why God made the French – the country was too perfect.” As someone who loves the French just as much as I love this country, I only agreed with the first part of his self-deprecating statement: France does have everything.