In France, the deadlock around the formation of a government has been broken with the appointment of veteran politician Michel Barnier as prime minister. His next two tasks are to assemble a ...

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 ...

Barnier has struggled to name a new government, underlining the complicated topography of France's political landscape after Macron's ill-fated decision to call a snap legislative election.

President Emmanuel Macron picked Michel Barnier to be the new French prime minister in a bid to end two months of political chaos after his centrist alliance lost its relative parliamentary ...

France's Prime Minister Michel Barnier has signalled his intention to raise taxes to breathe life into the country's ailing budget, in a move that could cause a rift in the centre-right political ...

Michel Barnier was in charge of leading Brexit negotiations from the EU. Here, he speaks during a meeting with Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis at the government's headquarters in Prague, ...

Michel Barnier has become France’s favourite political figure, according to a surprise new poll, in a boost to the EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator two weeks after president Emmanuel Macron ...

France's budgetary situation is "very serious", Prime Minister Michel Barnier told AFP on Wednesday, saying more information was needed to gauge the "precise reality" of French public finances.

Barnier has struggled to name a new government, underlining the complicated topography of France's political landscape after Macron's ill-fated decision to call a snap legislative election.

France edged closer to having a new government, more than two months after a hung election, as new Prime Minister Michel Barnier's office said he had pulled together a list of ministers he will ...

PARIS — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has reached a deal with centrist and conservative lawmakers to form a new government, his office said in a statement Thursday. Barnier presented “the ...

Authorities did not record a huge turnout nationwide. The left, particularly the France Unbowed party, views Barnier’s conservative background as rejecting the electorate’s will, further ...