France’s new prime minister François Bayrou announced Tuesday the renegotiation of a contested plan raising the retirement ...

His government on shaky ground, Prime Minister François Bayrou offered to reopen debate on the measure, which raised the ...

The new prime minister, a Macron ally, must try to assemble a government, regain control of France’s deficit and satisfy warring political factions.

PARIS (AP) — France’s new prime minister, François Bayrou ... one month after he was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron.

Some conservatives are expected to be part of the new government. Macron’s strategy ... in French politics. His name had repeatedly surfaced as a potential prime minister in the past, but ...

French president Emmanuel Macron has ... with forming a new government.” François Bayrou has been a prominent French politician for many years. AP Former Prime Minister Michel Barnier resigned ...

Macron had been widely expected to name a prime minister on Thursday evening. The new delay, albeit an overnight delay, underscores the political challenges posed by the fractured lower house of ...

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PARIS (Reuters) -When veteran centrist Francois Bayrou, France's new prime minister ... earliest tasks - as President Emmanuel Macron's fourth prime minister of the year - will be to pass a ...

French President Emmanuel Macron ... prime minister on Friday, in a bid to restore stability after a no-confidence vote toppled the shortest-serving government in the modern French republic. The ...

Some conservatives are expected to be part of the new government. Macron’s strategy ... in French politics. His name had repeatedly surfaced as a potential prime minister in the past, but ...

Macron was first expected to name a new prime minister in an address to the nation last week. In a sign of the stalemate, Macron did not name Barnier’s successor then and missed a 48-hour deadline he ...