Former French prime minister Michel Barnier has sailed through the first round of a high-profile by-election in Paris, ...

The former prime minister and right-wing Les Républicains candidate holds a strong lead in the 2nd constituency of the French ...

More than two weeks after his appointment as prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu has chosen to 'put the what before the who,' ...

Less than a year after losing a no-confidence vote, Michel Barnier is poised for a political comeback, leading the first round of a Paris by-election well ahead of his Socialist rival ...

France is in turmoil once again. Following President Emmanuel Macron's appointment of former EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as Prime Minister, the country has erupted in mass protests. Left-wing ...

Sébastien Lecornu follows into the arena Michel Barnier and Francois Bayrou, neither of whom could forge a working majority.

The country is at the conjuncture of several crises at once - but is it fair to blame Macron for 'this shipwreck'?

Mr Macron has told his new prime minister to consult widely among France’s political parties before forming a government. He ...

The French took to the streets en masse last week, days after the collapse of the latest Macron-aligned government. But the ...

In a last-ditch effort to save his job before the vote, Bayrou warned that France is risking its future and its influence by ...

The French government has collapsed after yet another vote of no confidence by MPs in the Assemblée Nationale. Prime Minister François Bayrou is expected to hand his resignation to President Macron ...

The root of the latest expected government collapse was Macron's stunning decision to dissolve the National Assembly in June ...