France is in turmoil once again. Following President Emmanuel Macron's appointment of former EU Brexit negotiator Michel ...

Sébastien Lecornu follows into the arena Michel Barnier and Francois Bayrou, neither of whom could forge a working majority.

Mr Macron has told his new prime minister to consult widely among France’s political parties before forming a government. He ...

President Emmanuel Macron faces a difficult task ahead after his second Prime Minister was ousted in a matter of months.

France is stuck between high taxes and high public spending. Uncontrollable deficits and political deadlock are the result.

France's finances and politics are in turmoil. President Emmanuel Macron has just appointed a new prime minister — the fourth ...

France has been plunged into a new political crisis with the defeat of Prime Minister François Bayrou at a confidence vote in ...

France's National Assembly is set to vote for a motion of no confidence in François Bayrou, less than a year after they did ...

A few hours before French PM François Bayrou went down in flames in parliament, having failed to win a vote of confidence for ...

Sebastien Lecornu took over as France’s prime minister pledging big changes as he tries to engage opposition parties in the herculean task of reining in the country’s debt amid hostility to budget ...

Sébastien Lecornu had been defense minister. He is one of President Emmanuel Macron’s most loyal and enduring allies.

The 39-year-old is the only minister to have remained in Macron’s government since the President was elected in 2017.