France’s postponed 2025 budget bill aims to achieve a deficit “slightly above 5%” to protect economic growth, new French Finance Minister Eric Lombard said in an interview with French financial weekly newspaper La Tribune Dimanche. Lombard, who previously led the Trust, was tasked with passing the budget through Parliament after the previous government was defeated … Read more
After three controversial biopics, Russian author Kirill Serebrennikov will next tackle a more tender, original drama about photography set in France. Described as a “chamber film” and “almost a love story” shot on a more intimate scale, the project will be Serebrennikov’s first feature film in French. Following 2022’s “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” with “Limonov: The Ballad” … Read more
Omar bin Laden, the fourth eldest son of former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, poses during an exhibition in Le Teilleul, western France, July 1, 2022. — AFP PARIS: A son of al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden has been barred from returning to France, where he lived for years painting landscapes in a Normandy village, … Read more