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France plunges into turmoil after government toppled

London | France faces weeks of political instability after lawmakers brought down the government on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT), leaving the European Union’s second-largest economic power with no clear path to a new budget and threatening to further jolt financial markets.

Left-wing parties and the populist right National Rally joined forces in a parliamentary no-confidence vote to topple the three-month-old government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier, capping months of tumult.

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Hans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.

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