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The country is at the conjuncture of several crises at once - but is it fair to blame Macron for 'this shipwreck'?
More than 140 people have been arrested in France after protesters clashed with police over Emmanuel Macron’s austerity ...
France’s new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has moved quickly to change course, scrapping a deeply unpopular measure ...
France’s populist National Rally party is reportedly considering passing an “amnesty bill” that would allow its figurehead, ...
Mr Macron has told his new prime minister to consult widely among France’s political parties before forming a government. He ...
France's new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu began his second day in office with talks with the leaders of the parliamentary chambers. Lecornu faces the uphill task of building a majority for his ...
Tens of thousands of British holidaymakers will be affected by French air traffic control (ATC) strikesnext week. Franceis bracing for its biggest aviation industrial action in years, with UK ...
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.
Sébastien Lecornu had been defense minister. He is one of President Emmanuel Macron’s most loyal and enduring allies.
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 ...
French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Sebastien Lecornu as the country's fifth prime minister in less than two years, following the resignation of Francois Bayrou.