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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France has a new government. Now it must fix the budget while avoiding collapse
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France's Macron names Francois Bayrou prime minister after government collapse
France gets fourth new government of the year; it must fix the budget while avoiding collapse
French President Emmanuel Macron’s office announced a new government, after the previous Cabinet collapsed in a historic vote prompted by fighting over the country's budget. Analysis by Europe correspondent and columnist for Blick, Richard Werly.
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.
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.
Marine Le Pen on Tuesday predicted that the new French government would swiftly fall and that France would choose “a new path at worse within months”, suggesting Emmanuel Macron’s days are numbered.
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"Mayotte is demolished," an airport security agent told President Emmanuel Macron as he arrived in the remote French territory five days after Cyclone Chido.
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".
French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Francois Bayrou as his new prime minister, marking his sixth appointment. The government aims to address political and economic challenges. Two former prime ministers join the cabinet,
Macron's current alliance center-right alliance lacks the majority needed to pass legislation in the National Assembly.
President Emmanuel Macron on Friday tapped François Bayrou, a veteran centrist politician and one of his top allies, as the new prime minister, a move that few expect would stabilize France’s roiling politics.
In the ruins left by Cyclone Chido, people from Mayotte, off the eastern coast of Africa, are calling to deport the undocumented immigrants who had settled there from neighboring islands.
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