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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded in Stockholm on Monday to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for their work on innovation-driven growth and creative destruction.
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Sunday named a 34‑member government in Paris that faced immediate no‑confidence motions from the far‑right National Rally and the far‑left LFI.
President Emmanuel Macron blamed "forces of destabilization" for France's political crisis after he refused to accept the 2024 legislative results and two prime ministers failed.
Opinion writers in Spain, France and Australia criticized Donald Trump’s claims of credit for a Middle East peace deal, calling them premature and unworthy of a Nobel Peace Prize.
France's new Lecornu II government faced rival motions of censure from far-right RN and leftist LFI, with Socialist Party support contingent on suspending the 2023 pension reform.
France announced a new government that kept key ministers in finance, foreign affairs and justice, while facing a budget impasse, pension reform dispute and an imminent confidence vote.
Les Républicains expelled six members who joined Sébastien Lecornu's new French government, saying those who entered the cabinet could no longer claim the party.
