Bruno Le Maire

The presence of far-right candidates will mean that the stakes will be very high in next year’s French presidential election, the country’s finance minister has said. Bruno Le Maire told BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur that the country had "questions about our own identity" and the kind of role it could play on the international stage in the future.

WASHINGTON, April 27 – Today, World Bank Group President David Malpass met with French Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire. President Malpass thanked Minister Le Maire for France’s longstanding support for IDA, the World Bank’s fund for the poorest countries, and the growth of France's contribution under the leadership of President Macron and Minister Le Maire. They discussed the benefits to development, especially in Africa, from an ambitious and successful IDA20 by December 2021.

After month-long debates over concessions, the French Government had reached an accord with EU Commission about a state-backed refinancing package to muscle up a beleaguered balance sheet of the Franco-Dutch airline holding Air France-KLM, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in an interview with LCI TV on Sunday. Nonetheless,...