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.

Mr Barnier, who has campaigned for tough laws against illegal migration, could even prove to be an unlikely ally to Britain. His new Right-leaning government will crack down on immigration to keep ...

If the prime minister can survive the year, he can likely hang on until the end of Macron’s term. However, there are a few ...

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 ...

France's Prime Minister Michel Barnier was "operated on for a cervical lesion" at the weekend, his office said on Monday, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barnier, elaborating on his plan for taxes targeting the rich, said on Sunday that they had to do their bit. He argued for "targeted levies on rich people or certain large companies".

Former chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier made a stunning political comeback yesterday as he was named as France’s oldest ever prime minister. In an appointment designed to end two months of ...

Affordable insurance in high-risk areas, heatwave-proof housing and different work schedules are among dozens of new measures ...