France has finally passed a budget for this year after the minority government survived a series of no-confidence votes in a long-running political saga that has unsettled debt markets and alarmed the country’s European partners. The prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, told parliament on Monday, after months of wrangling, that French people “refuse this disorder and want our institutions to function”. The budget was passed using special constitutional powers that avoided it being submitted to parliament for a vote. But as part of that process, Lecornu and his government faced a series of no-confidence motions. The government survived the final two
‘It’s now a daily occurrence’: Warnings as deaths linked to party drug surge
...
Read moreDetails
