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🚨 BREAKING: French Prime Minister François Bayrou said his government will propose eliminating Easter Monday and Victory in Europe Day on May 8 as public holidays as part of an aggressive plan to right the country's deteriorating public finances. 🔗 ow.ly/soAO50WpXlg

The method to François Bayrou’s madness ⁦Victor Goury-Laffont⁩ ⁦Giorgio Leali⁩ and I explain why the French PM agressive budget plan could actually work politico.eu/article/franco…

The French government wants Brussels to turn the screws on Washington as transatlantic trade talks head to the wire with no deal in sight. politico.eu/article/france…

Here’s the unpaywalled version of our story by Gregorio Sorgi in which the EU admits the $600 bn investment it just promised Trump has to come entirely from the private sector with no state guarantees. politico.eu/article/eus-60…

Bientôt! Abonnez-vous vite, c'est gratuit! politico.eu/newsletter/le-…

Rome's far-right ex-mayor denounces the woeful conditions of Italy’s overcrowded prisons. From jail. It is a somewhat unexpected campaign for a politician from the hard-right camp, which tends to favor locking more people up. Can he convince Meloni to act? politico.eu/article/gianni…

Atmosphere in the room where Bayrou just put his government's survival on the line: an adviser evokes the specter of the Troika if nothing is done to cut France's debt, another one says it is better to die by suicide than suffer in agony w/Paul de Villepin politico.eu/article/fance-…

New PM? Elections? Resign? Macron has 3 choices if Bayrou’s government falls The French traditional Rentrée just got a lot more exciting. With Victor Goury-Laffont politico.eu/article/emmanu…

.Mario Monti's strategy to stand up to Trump in POLITICOEurope : - form a worldwide alliance of non-authoritarian countries 🌎 - do not exempt the US from the OECD corporate taxation reform💰 - do not give up on a digital tax to finance the EU budget politico.eu/article/threat…

French PM François Bayrou faces a confidence vote today that he’s almost certain to lose. If the government is toppled, it'll leave President Macron scrambling to find a new prime minister and could send shockwaves far beyond Paris. Follow every update: ow.ly/NKOp50WSVM3

🔴ENQUÊTE POLITICO - Depuis des mois, Apple s’appuie sur plus de 200 salariés de la société Transperfect pour entraîner son propre chatbot d’IA. J'ai obtenu les 125 pages de directives qui guident leur travail. ⤵️ politico.eu/article/commen…

In the cafés and pizzerias of the EU quarter, Italy's center-left MEPs are plotting their return to “the beautiful country” — a move only exacerbated by regional elections this fall. Meet the "Montecristo group." By Gregorio Sorgi politico.eu/article/italy-…

EU exporters of wine and spirits will be able to sell their booze in Indonesia — but the bloc wants to keep it quiet. politico.eu/article/eu-to-…

🚨Last year POLITICO revealed that Macron sent von der Leyen a text asking to freeze EU-Mercosur trade talks. The European Ombudsman just launched a probe into the Commission for letting that message automatically disappear on Signal👇 politico.eu/article/eu-wat…

From Palazzo Vecchio to the Elysée, meet the modern Machiavelli, the writer “who is in the room, in the place where decisions are taken and things happen, but who stays a bit on the side,” as he put it. Europe’s political elite can’t stop reading da Empoli politico.eu/article/giulia…

Zucman tells POLITICO that Barnier, Bayrou and Lecornu ignored his tax proposal. And that's one of the reasons why we got to this point. "This blocking attitude is at the heart of the budget crisis and also, as a result, of the current political crisis," he said👇

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu unveiled his next government tonight, just two days after he was reappointed as head of government. politico.eu/article/sebast…

C'est partiiii pour le liveblog de POLITICO. Conseil des ministres, présentation du budget, avis du Haut conseil aux finances publiques,... ça chauffe déjà avant la déclaration de politique générale de cet après-midi, et on suit ça pour vous 🔥 politico.eu/article/direct…

Macron hopes his work on ending war in Gaza will be remembered in history books. But at home, the French president’s dogged determination to defend his achievements risks backfiring. As France burned, Macron was looking for his legacy politico.eu/article/emmanu…