EVERYBODY’s Irish on St Patrick’s Day – but for some world leaders that saying is a little bit truer. Dozens of our ...

Former prime minister Michel Barnier, at the Hôtel de Cassini, Paris, March 3, 2025. LUCIEN LUNG/RIVA PRESS FOR LE MONDE Michel Barnier was French prime minister from September to December 2024 ...

Storm clouds have hovered over French politics for some time now but it was in the summer of last year that the thunder really began to roll. In July, early parliamentary elections resulted in an ...

Successfully steering a deficit-cutting budget for 2025 though a National Assembly splintered into 11 political groups and three mutually antagonistic camps, the centrist prime minister has now ...

Finance Minister Eric Lombard said a proposal by the previous French administration under Prime Minister Michel Barnier for a differential levy on high incomes was “interesting.” ...

Paris: France is selling bonds just days before Prime Minister Michel Barnier unveils detailed plans to control the government’s ballooning deficit and win back investor confidence. The Treasury ...

Michel Barnier news, updates, speeches and analysis here. The European Commission's former vice president is in charge of its taskforce on Brexit talks. The former French minister is in talks with ...