By Roger Cohen La elección de Michel Barnier por parte del presidente, tras un retraso extraordinario, enardeció a los opositores de la izquierda que salieron victoriosos de unas elecciones no ...

President Emmanuel Macron has named EU former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as France’s new prime minister. The announcement came on Thursday after more than 50 days of caretaker government.

Barnier, 73, is the oldest of the 26 prime ministers that have served modern France's Fifth Republic. He replaces the ...

Michel Barnier, the EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator, has become France’s new prime minister, the French president’s office says, ending two months of stalemate following inconclusive ...

Michel Barnier, France’s new prime minister, was determined to teach Britain a lesson during the Brexit negotiations. The EU’s chief negotiator never missed a chance to school his rebellious ...

France's new right-wing Prime Minister Michel Barnier promised Thursday to address the grievances of the French but also implement "change" as he took office following almost two months of ...

Barnier, 73, who hails from the Haute Savoie region of the Alps, first become a French member of parliament aged just 27 in the 1970s and first entered government in the mid-1990s under late ...

In France, the deadlock around the formation of a government has been broken with the appointment of veteran politician Michel Barnier as prime minister. His next two tasks are to assemble a ...

Giving his first interview as government chief following his nomination on Thursday, Barnier said his government, which lacks a clear majority in a hung lower house of parliament, will also be ...