France’s prime minister pleads for support to reduce debts ahead of key vote
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is making a last-ditch effort to save his job, urging officials expected to topple him in a confidence vote later on Monday to back his plans to curb France’s debts that he said are “submerging us”.
In an impassioned speech to the National Assembly, the 74-year-old stuck to his position that France’s spiralling public deficits and mounting debts are threatening the future of the European Union’s second-largest economy.
