The Latest Breaking News from Michel Barnier

France Poised To Finally Get New Govt

French President Emmanuel Macron was on Friday weighing a long-awaited new government which includes fresh faces in almost all key posts and marks a shift to the right.

International Business Times · Sep 20, 2024

Macron poised to unveil new government with major cabinet shake-up this weekend

French President Emmanuel Macron was on Friday weighing a long-awaited new government which includes fresh faces in almost all key posts and marks a shift to the right. The full line-up won't be announced today, Friday, but is due by Sunday following "final fine-tuning", Prime Minister Michel Barnier's office said.

Radio France Internationale · Sep 20, 2024

Violence rocks France overseas territories in challenge for new PM Barnier

Curfew in Martinique after protests over high cost of living while two killed in Pacific island of New Caledonia.

Al Jazeera · Sep 20, 2024

France throws one last party for the Paris Olympics

The curtain will come down on the Paris’ feel-good summer with a grand parade of French athletes on the Champs Elysées as the country throws one last party to celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic Games

The Independent UK · Sep 14, 2024

Macron-Barnier duo is neither a coalition nor cohabitation – could it be a ‘coalitation’?

In the weeks leading up to the appointment of Michel Barnier as France’s new prime minister, there was one word in particular to hang on the lips of those at the Elysée Palace – “coalitation”.

The Conversation · Sep 12, 2024

Michel Barnier: how Mr Brexit rose from the ashes of Emmanuel Macron’s fire to become French prime minister

When it was announced that Michel Barnier was France’s new prime minister, commentators joked that he was better known to the British public than to the French. There’s more than a grain of truth in this.

The Conversation · Sep 11, 2024

France's New PM Says To Form Government 'Next Week'

France will have a new government "next week", recently installed conservative Prime Minister Michel Barnier said Wednesday, as he sounded out candidates to run ministries faced with an unpredictable hung parliament.

International Business Times · Sep 11, 2024

France's new PM says he will form a government 'next week'

France will have a new government "next week", recently installed conservative Prime Minister Michel Barnier said Wednesday, as he sounded out candidates to run ministries faced with an unpredictable hung parliament.

Radio France Internationale · Sep 11, 2024

The Guardian view on France’s political crisis: Barnier is not a real fix for Macron’s mess

Editorial: Few are celebrating the appointment of the EU’s Brexit negotiator as the country’s new prime minister

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2024

France’s leftwing coalition had a serious chance to change the country. It blew it

The right’s Michel Barnier is now PM – and the NFP must share the blame for failing to unite behind a plausible candidate, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2024