The new cabinet remains largely dominated by ministers from the ranks of President Emmanuel Macron despite his party’s heavy ...

President Emmanuel Macron’s newly picked prime minister wasted no time in putting a pointed distance between himself and France’s weakened leader. By Roger Cohen Reporting from Paris Michel ...

Opponents say selection of Michel Barnier, a member of the conservative party, ignored the results of recent snap elections.

Paris: Michel Barnier, the new French prime minister, did not thank President Emmanuel Macron for appointing him in his first remarks upon taking office last week. This was a declaration of ...

Image The prime minister ... Macron’s government in July for lavish spending on official receptions and a globe-trotting travel schedule. The court pointed to an extravagant €475,000 black ...

In the last three months, he lost one election, then hastily dissolved parliament and sent his troops unprepared into another election, lost that election and then triggered weeks of chaos and ...

France’s President Emmanuel Macron launched a new round of talks with political party leaders on Tuesday to find a way to form a new government and appoint a prime minister. The French political ...

Macron appointed Barnier, the European Union's former Brexit negotiator, as prime minister two weeks ago. Barnier has struggled to name a new government, underlining the complicated topography of ...

In 2020, Barnier’s name was among those touted to replace Edouard Philippe as prime minister. Macron instead chose to appoint Jean Castex, an unknown civil servant who had overseen the first ...

Macron has been struggling to find a prime minister since losing a gamble to bolster his centrist party’s relative majority with early elections in July. The defeat opened an unprecedented ...

Michel Barnier, a seasoned French politician, has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of France in September 2024. Born in 1951 in La Tronche, Barnier graduated from the prestigious ESCP ...

Thousands of people took to streets across France over the weekend to protest President Emmanuel Macron's decision to appoint right-wing politician Michel Barnier as prime minister, despite the ...