EDITORIAL. Whatever mistakes Prime Minister François Bayrou may have made in his approach, political parties and labor unions must pull themselves together and resist the temptation to defend their own interests at all costs.

PARIS: France found itself mired in yet another crisis on Tuesday, after Prime Minister Francois Bayrou’s gamble to win backing for his deeply unpopular debt-reduction plan…

With the government facing defeat in a confidence vote, the nation’s economic problems will still need to tackled