PARIS, Jan 14 (Reuters) - France's birth rate fell under the symbolically important bar of two children per woman and the country saw its lowest population growth in a decade in 2013, data showed on ...

PARIS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron promised on Tuesday to overhaul parental leave so it pays better after France saw the lowest number of births since World War Two last year, ...

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu acknowledged the situation on January 13: "The demographic challenge is practically a presidential campaign issue." Recently, French politicians have been closely ...

A small French town is to offer expectant mothers 1,000 euros from next year to give birth at the local maternity ward in a bid to save it from closing. The initiative from January 1 comes as birth ...