President Emmanuel Macron of France named the choices less than three weeks after the previous government collapsed. He had already picked François Bayrou as prime minister.
France’s president and prime minister managed to form a new government just in time for the holidays. Now comes the hard part.
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French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government Monday evening, putting together a team under Francois Bayrou, his fourth prime minister of the year, to drag the second-largest EU economy out of political crisis.
French President Emmanuel Macron expressed full support on Saturday for Ethiopia's debt restructuring efforts, emphasising the need for a swift resolution "in the coming weeks".
"Mayotte is demolished," an airport security agent told President Emmanuel Macron as he arrived in the remote French territory five days after Cyclone Chido.
France’s embattled President Emmanuel Macron has appointed centrist ally Francois Bayrou as prime minister, he announced on Friday, as he seeks to calm a political crisis that has left his authority dwindling by the day. Macron’s office made the ...
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Thursday in the Indian Ocean island of ... Mayotte, with a population of 320,000 residents and an estimated 100,000 additional migrants, is France’s poorest territory. It is part of an archipelago located between ...
French President Emmanuel Macron has traveled to the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte to survey the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Chido.
Meanwhile the government in the restive French South Pacific territory of New Caledonia collapsed Tuesday in a wave of resignations by pro-independence figures — another challenge for the new overseas affairs minister, Manuel Valls, and the incoming Cabinet.
Residents say Emmanuel Macron has abandoned the island in the wake of cyclone ... telling them: “If it wasn’t for France, you’d be 10,000 times deeper in s***”. Nearly a week after the storm hit, the lack of potable water was testing nerves in ...