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

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

French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier Saturday, marked by a shift to ...

French President Emmanuel Macron held phone calls with top political and military leaders from Lebanon as well as a separate ...

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

France’s new government dominated by conservatives and centrists has gathered for the first time as Prime Minister Michel ...

French President Macron has called for a review of Europe's ties with Russia and a reimagining of the global order. Speaking ...

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

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 ...

With Germany and France fighting political and economic woes on the domestic front, analysts say there’s a danger of a ...

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 ...