Michel Barnier, the EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator, has become France’s new prime minister, the French president’s office says, ending two months of stalemate following inconclusive ...

As a presidential candidate, Barnier proposed “putting a stop to non-European immigration for three to five years,” he told French weekly Le Point in an interview at the time. “During this period of ...

Michel Barnier said the new government of France would not just come from his own conservative camp as the freshly appointed prime minister ... “There will be people from my political family, ...

France's government has been toppled by a no-confidence vote in parliament, for the first time sine 1962. Prime Minister Michel Barnier served the shortest time in the post in France's modern history.

In the autumn of 2021, Michel Barnier, running in the right-wing presidential primary, visited a brasserie in Saverne, near Strasbourg. Silver-haired and with an impeccable suit, he passed by two ...

Mr Barnier, who once described former UK prime minister Boris Johnson as a "bulldozer", led the EU's talks with Britain over its exit from the bloc from 2016 to 2021. Before that, the conservative ...

Or Michel Barnier, the right-wing primary candidate who denounced wind power in 2021? ... as if afraid to upset his political family. "He still believes in it and is sincere in his approach.

Michel Barnier, the EU’s former Brexit negotiator now picked as prime minister to help France avoid a political crisis, has not always had kind words for his new boss, Emmanuel Macron.

After Prime Minister Michel Barnier lost a no-confidence vote in Parliament, President Emmanuel Macron castigated his political opposition for “choosing disorder” and said he would not resign.

Prime minister Michel Barnier on the set of TF1, Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), September 6, 2024. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP Michel Barnier is a conservative. No doubt about it after a political ...