(Bloomberg) -- France’s outgoing prime minister Michel Barnier learned a hard lesson his successor should also know. There is no placating Marine Le Pen. On Monday last week, he called the leader of ...

Michel Barnier defended his budget bill during the no-confidence debate on Wednesday but was eventually ousted at the vote - ALAIN JOCARD/AFP France’s government fell on Wednesday night after MPs ...

François Bayrou, the three-time presidential candidate, is one of the possible choices for prime minister - Sebastian Salom-Gomis/AFP Emmanuel Macron is looking for a new prime minister after MPs ...

(Bloomberg) -- Emmanuel Macron is looking for another prime minister on Thursday after the far right joined forces with the left to push through a no-confidence motion against his government over a ...

Free Expression: Donald Trump’s re-election has exposed aesthetic and substantive divisions within the U.S.-Europe alliance. Photo: Image: Francois Lenoir/Reuters Who’s afraid of Marine Le Pen?

Yesterday, a 332-seat majority of the National Assembly’s 577 deputies voted to censure the Social Security budget (PLFSS) proposed by French Prime Minister Michel Barnier, bringing down his ...

France is doing a better job at protecting its monuments than the functioning of its democracy. Even as Notre Dame cathedral rises from the ashes as a symbol of unity in adversity, Europe’s No. 2 ...

France's government is hanging by a thread with the far-right National Rally party threatening to bring down Prime Minister Michel Barnier's administration by the end of the year. National Rally's ...

Paris may not be burning, but France is the stage of a major political drama after a no-confidence vote Wednesday by the national assembly toppled the minority coalition of the prime minister, Michel ...

(Bloomberg) -- Veteran centrist figure, Francois Bayrou, became France’s fourth prime minister in a year on Friday after President Emmanuel Macron named his longtime ally as the new head of government ...

Dec. 5 (UPI) --French Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Thursday became the shortest-serving leader in the 66-year history of the fifth republic, tendering his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron ...

Michel Barnier is France's new Prime Minister, causing controversy. Seen as a boost for Marine Le Pen's party, critics cite his stance on immigration.