The former prime minister wanted to sack France’s envoy to the EU, Philippe Léglise-Costa, and replace him with former Europe ...

Michel Barnier is expected to go down as the shortest-serving prime minister in modern French history as both Left and Right unite to end his government. The 73-year-old former Brexit negotiator ...

President Macron appointed Barnier as PM as recently as on September 5 this year, after snap elections in the summer produced a hung parliament in which no party won an outright majority.

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is set to ride out two no-confidence votes on Wednesday, giving him the stability ...

Barnier, who hails from the Haute Savoie region of the Alps, first become a member of France's parliament aged just 27 in the 1970s, and entered government in the mid-1990s under the then ...

French premier François Bayrou forced approval of his 2025 budget this week, using a special constitutional power known as ...

That’s what happened in December, when a confidence motion triggered by budget disputes forced Prime Minister Michel Barnier ...

Barnier survived a no-confidence motion in October, but Wednesday's vote, which is due to take place in the evening, sometime after a debate that starts at 4:00 p.m. local time (1500 GMT), has ...

Mr Barnier is running a minority government following Mr Macron’s unsuccessful bid to boost his authority with a snap election earlier this year, meaning the administration is highly vulnerable ...

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French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou will use special constitutional powers to pass the 2025 budget on Monday, triggering a ...