Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is one of just a handful of world leaders to have been invited to Mar-a-Lago since his ...

Throughout the Brexit process Michel Barnier and his negotiating team tried every wheeze they could to try to tie Britain down. When Johnson refused a role for the ECJ, the EU weaponised the ...

Duffy stepped down as Virgin’s CEO as the Nationwide tie-up was completed and is estimated ... for the first time in late November as Michel Barnier’s government limped towards collapse ...

1972: Coal miners stage their first national strike in almost 50 years. On the same day, billionaire recluse Howard Hughes says an autobiography published by Clifford Irving is fake. Also, the retired ...

The déclaration de politique générale, which is likely to be followed by a decisive vote on the new government’s future, is being closely watched to see how Bayrou plans to avoid the same pitfalls as ...

Even more crucially, Bayrou has so far been unable to extend his narrow base of support in France’s fragmented legislature — something he will need to accomplish to avoid the fate of his predecessor ...

A 'builder' or a 'repairer'? The new prime minister is putting the center's ability to embody the government at stake, at a time when the right and the left are dreaming of revenge, writes Le ...

The veteran centrist Francois Bayrou, named as Prime Minister last week after the sudden collapse of his predecessor Michel Barnier's government, needs to get the budget through parliament ...

French parliamentarians ousted Michel Barnier as prime minister after a vote of no confidence. Now center-left politician François Bayrou is in the role, but his position is incredibly tenuous.

Bayrou’s predecessor, Michel Barnier, was ousted by the National Assembly in a vote of no confidence earlier this month because of opposition from leftwing and far-right political parties to his ...

Macron appointed the center-right Michel Barnier as prime minister in September with the goal of quickly passing an austerity budget to rein in France’s growing fiscal deficit. By early December ...

The credit downgrade followed the ousting of Michel Barnier over the 2025 budget proposal, which faced rejection from both the far-right National Rally and the left-wing alliance. The rating firm ...