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 ...

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 ...

France’s veteran European Union ambassador was nearly fired before Christmas but got a last-minute stay of execution when the man who wanted to oust him, former Prime Minister Michel Barnier, lost his ...