France’s parliament fires the prime minister
The government was sacked by parliament on December 4th. Its prime minister, Michel Barnier, had tried to force through his budget for 2025 two days earlier, but met the brutal reality of life without a majority and became the shortest-lived prime minister of the Fifth Republic.
President Macron due to address the nation as the minority government led by his hand-picked premier is toppled.
The fall of the French government, after Michel Barnier lost a no-confidence vote in the National Assembly last night, brings ...
Mr Macron seems to want to appoint a successor swiftly. He needs a new team in order to use special measures to roll over ...
Prime Minister Michel Barnier will most likely remain as a caretaker until a replacement is named. But the vote could further ...
France is facing the prospect of the collapse of its government amid a row over how to tackle the country’s large budget ...
France's President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army ...
The drama is developing at Paris as deficits soar and the walls close in on an unpopular president whose miscalculations are ...
The beleaguered president will likely try to find a caretaker PM to keep the French state functioning, amid an intractable ...
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