The government still faces two challenges in the coming weeks: the risk of a no-confidence vote and a tight budget deadline.

France finally got a new government Saturday in a shift to the right, as left-wing protesters took to the streets to denounce ...

France's new government, finally appointed two-and-a-half months after elections, features a host of new faces all of whom ...

After months of political uncertainty following a snap legislative election, France appeared on the cusp of a new government ...

On Saturday night Michel Barnier, the French prime minister, unveiled his new centre-Right cabinet, awarding plum posts such ...

President Emmanuel Macron’s new government sparked an immediate angry reaction from across the political spectrum, raising ...

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has handed a little known duo the task of plugging a huge hole in the budget, putting ...

Thirty-three-year-old Antoine Armand will be in charge of the economy, while 39-year-old Laurent Saint-Martin will try to ...

French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Antoine Armand as finance minister, thrusting a 33-year-old with limited political experience into an urgent budget battle in which he must bring fiscal ...

Michel Barnier has become France’s favourite political figure, according to a surprise new poll, in a boost to the EU’s ...

“I am discovering that the country’s budgetary situation is very serious,” said Michel Barnier, who was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron this month after a summer in which France ...

His weakness has been noticed by rivals and allies alike. Macron was the first to blink in a standoff with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over France’s European commission. Macron ...