Bond vigilantes target france

Issue of the week: the Chancellor’s tax choices ...

French president Emmanuel Macron has named Sébastien Lecornu as the country’s new prime minister. The former defence minister, who is a close ally of the embattled president, will become France’s fift

When conservative billionaire Pierre-Édouard Stérin caught the eye of Le Monde last year, the newspaper noted how stealthily he was “advancing his pawns” in the chess game of hard-right French politic

The apologists for the relentless expansion in the size and cost of Britain’s public-sector debt like to point out that other major developed economies face a similar predicament. Although government

The run up to the Budget in November has already been dominated by headlines about a “meltdown” in the bond market and a yawning “£50bn” black hole that will have to be filled by more tax increases. S

Sarkozy behind bars: the conviction dividing France ...