PARIS — France’s prime minister proposed on Tuesday the elimination of two public holidays from the country’s annual calendar — possibly Easter Monday and the day marking the Allied victory over the ...

Passengers walk on a platform in the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris in December 2014.(Photo by DOMINIQUE FAGET / AFP) Tickets for train travel during the Christmas and New Year holidays in France ...

July 16 (Reuters) - (This July 16 story has been corrected to fix the graphic and attribution for the number of nationwide holidays in France, in paragraph 10) French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The French government thinks the country has too many days off for its own good, but its proposal to cull some public holidays may not produce much of an economic benefit. Prime ...