Macron said he will serve as president “until the end” of his five-year term scheduled in 2027. He also said he would name a new prime minister within days, but gave no hints who that might be.

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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 ...

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 ...

The prime minister runs a minority government, composed of ministers ranging from ex-Socialists to conservatives, which is not based on any formal coalition pact. Faced with the same problem, his ...

Key allies of Emmanuel Macron are heaping pressure on the French president to name a new prime minister quickly, with time running short to pass a stopgap spending bill before the end of the year.

More importantly, a new ... to Macron and not a great choice in our view) and Sébastien Lecornu (defence minister, capable and uncontroversial) are prime examples. In general, most of the names ...

France’s president began a visit to Lebanon Friday, where he will meet the crisis-hit country’s newly elected leaders, as the ...

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

Former prime minister Elisabeth Borne was ... the start of the Fifth Republic in 1958. Macron appointed Bayrou on 13 December, hoping that his new administration would be presented before ...

President Emmanuel Macron appointed Eric Lombard as France’s finance minister, tapping an experienced finance professional as part of a new cabinet that also returned two former prime ministers ...