The latest news and top stories on Michel Barnier, a French politician and former European Commissioner. He recently served as Prime Minister of France from September to December 2024. Barnier was the ...

His predecessors, François Bayrou, and Michel Barnier, were ousted after MPs rejected the cost-cutting measures in their ...

Sébastien Lecornu had been in office for 26 days when he resigned on Monday - he was given 48 hours by President Macron to ...

Political instability has come at a high cost, fueling growing distrust and a sense that democracy is dysfunctional, ...

Across the world’s democracies, the past year has been one of constitutional turbulence. In France, multiple prime ministers ...

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu tendered his resignation on Monday, only hours after the announcement of a new ...

The president's unpopularity means those who associate themselves with him risk a beating at France's 2027 election, writes ...

Lecornu was asked by President Macron to stay on until Wednesday in a last-ditch attempt to achieve "stability" for the ...

If in the next few hours, roughly until next Monday, there is no significant progress on the text, there will be no room for ...

Lecornu - who only took the job in September - resigned earlier this month, before being reappointed. Today's vote to remove him fell short by 18 votes.

The shock resignation of Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister on Monday has piled pressure on President Emmanuel Macron to find a way out of the deadlock and extricate France out of a deep political ...

In bare numbers alone, not to mention glamour and prestige, this art-world coup suggests that France’s cultural sector is in ...