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Michel Barnier
23/12/2024
Ex-PMs Manuel Valls, Elisabeth Borne appointed as ministers in new French govt
Europe
19/12/2024
Does LR risk getting swallowed up by centre or losing themselves, clinging ever closer to far right?
18/12/2024
French parliament adopts special law to avoid government shutdown
Europe
16/12/2024
Brussels quite 'perplexed', somewhat 'worried', about France's current political, economic crises
14/12/2024
Moody's downgrades France credit rating over 'political fragmentation'
France
13/12/2024
New French PM François Bayrou to grapple with national debt, budget
Europe
12/12/2024
Macron to name new French PM Friday after days of deadlock
France
12/12/2024
All eyes on the Élysée presidential palace as Macron's self-imposed deadline to pick a PM looms
France
12/12/2024
'Negotiations down to the wire' as Macron's self-imposed deadline to name new PM looms
France
11/12/2024
Macron expected to name new PM on Thursday
Europe
10/12/2024
'Macron responsible for bad economic situation': Snap elections 'created chaos in financial markets'
10/12/2024
France's Macron calls cross-party talks on forming new government
France
09/12/2024
Macron invites party leaders for talks as he mulls France’s next government
France
06/12/2024
Notre-Dame, French government: Anatomy of a fall
France
06/12/2024
France’s PM and government have fallen, so what are Macron’s next options?
Explainer
Europe
06/12/2024
Calls to resign or for impeachment 'serious development in legitimacy of Macron & presidency itself'
06/12/2024
France is 'learning how to function as a parliamentary country again', just like European neighbours
06/12/2024
'And so it goes': Macron makes 'fairly ham-fisted, very clumsy attempt' to re-center government
Business
05/12/2024
With the government down, what will happen to France's budget?
Business
05/12/2024
'European vacuum': Franco-German alliance in trouble at a 'critical moment for Europe and France'
05/12/2024
Macron blames alliance of 'extreme left and extreme right' for fall of French government
France
05/12/2024
'Search for a Goldilocks govt in a parliament of bears': Will Macron find 'new way through' impasse?
Press Review
05/12/2024
France without a government once again: What's next?
05/12/2024
France's Barnier to resign as no-confidence vote sparks new political crisis
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