Michel Barnier

The outgoing government unveiled a special bill to enable the state to levy taxes from Jan. 1 to avoid a shutdown.

In a national address following the historic collapse of his government, President Emmanuel Macron attempted to shirk responsibility for the political chaos in Paris and vowed to stay on until the end of his term despite growing calls for his resignation.

The government of France has fallen for the second time this year, as a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Michel Barnier was passed by the National Assembly on Wednesday, giving the former Eurocrat the ignominious distinction of being the shortest tenured prime minister in modern French history.

French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed that he will not resign no matter the result of the planned no confidence vote in Prime Minister Michel Barnier, which is likely to collapse the second Macronist government this year.

The three month old government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier in France has apparently failed to win the trust of the public, with a survey finding that a majority of the French people would back a no confidence vote to bring down the government.

France´s Prime Minister Michel Barnier resumed work Monday following surgery for a spinal lesion, according to his doctor.

In the first major hurdle for the recently-installed French Prime Minister Michel Barnier, the battle over the nation’s budget begun on Wednesday, with both Marine Le Pen’s populist faction and the far-left New Popular Front rejecting the austerity measures.

Prime Minister Michel Barnier has announced President Emmanuel Macron’s new government in France, which will represent a continuity establishment cabinet after months of deadlock.

Populist leader Marine Le Pen has demanded a national audit of France’s finances to determine how Paris plunged the nation into a budgetary crises which threatens to take down the new government before it even gets off the ground.

The campaign to impeach and remove President Emmanuel Macron over his refusal to install the preferred pick of the far-left for prime minister after July’s snap legislative elections cleared its first legal hurdle on Tuesday.

France’s new government is already besieged as the leftist New Popular Front has promised to “do everything” to take down the government.

Thousands of leftists took to the streets of France over President Macron’s installation of centrist Michelle Barnier as prime minister.

Top Eurocrat Michel Barnier is the new French Prime Minister, appointed 60 days after Macron’s disastrous snap election.

Making a last-ditch attempt at reclaiming the narrative before the snap elections, Macron vowed to “change” while refusing to resign.

In a stunning development, the head of the centre-right Les Républicans party backed an alliance with Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally.

Arch-Remainer Michael Heseltine, best known for bringing down Margaret Thatcher, is gloating that “if Boris goes, Brexit goes” now the Prime Minister’s departure has been confirmed. 

The EU’s former hardline Brexit negotiator, who criticised his British counterparts for “cherry-picking” during negotiations, has appeared to have embraced Euroscepticism, demanding the return of France’s sovereignty from the European courts to control immigration.

The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has announced he will run for the French presidency, vowing to take a harder line on immigration than incumbent Emmanuel Macron.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has said that the “impact of Brexit is only just beginning”, as French political figure Michel Barnier took a move towards the right and stated he backed a cessation of immigration in France for three to five years.

France should commit to a three to five-year moratorium on immigration in light of problems such as terrorism, the European Union’s former chief Brexit negotiator has said.

One of the European Union’s top bureaucrats has admitted that Brussels’ excessive bureaucratic demands held back the progress of the bloc’s vaccine programme, adding that Brexit Britain succeeded because it was willing to take a gamble by partnering with private industry.

EU lawmakers approved the final ratification of the deal nearly five years after Britain decided to leave the bloc.

The EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has warned that French populist Marine Le Pen may triumph in next year’s French presidential elections if mainstream politicians do not listen to anger in society.

France could be next to leave the European Union if President Macron fails to learn the lessons of Brexit in areas such as migration, says EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is engaged in intense “hotline” talks with his European counterparts, amid claims a Brexit deal could be struck within hours —  a deal Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned could be a betrayal of the British interest.

The deal Europe is trying to push would leave a “Sword of Damocles” hanging over the UK in perpetuity, Farage warned.

Ursula von der Leyen said “there is a path to an agreement now”, revealingthe UK had apparently agreed to be bound in several key areas.

The European Union won’t offer the UK “anything”, warns Brexit leader Nigel Farage, who predicted on Monday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson will ultimately cave to EU demands in favour of securing a trade deal. As the end of the

Brexit leader Nigel Farage predicted that Prime Minister Boris Johnson will cave in during Brexit negotiations with the European Union and sell out the UK in favour of securing a trade deal with the bloc.

France could use its veto to kill any deal they didn’t deem in their interest, seriously knocking expectations an agreement was close.

Scottish fishermen have slammed the EU behaving “like the bully who steals your lunch every day and expects you to be grateful for the few crumbs he hands back” as it continues to push for control over Britain’s fisheries.

Brexit deal talks are over if Britain will not give in to the European Union’s demands, Brussels’ top man is claimed to have told UK negotiators, as the clock runs down in the final weeks until Britain is expected to finally and fully leave the bloc.

The pro-Remain leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, will reportedly back Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s prospective trade deal with the European Union in an attempt to put the battle over Brexit behind the party.

France, Belgium, and the Netherlands are reportedly demanding the EU’s executive arm publish the bloc’s no-deal planning as the deadline for agreeing on a deal in the European Parliament looms. Meanwhile, the UK may be seeing progress on trade deals with Australia and Canada.

Britain’s top negotiator has privately told Boris Johnson that a so-called Brexit ‘landing zone’ may appear early next week.

European Union politicians praised the departure of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings, claiming that the move signifies a “U-turn” in the ongoing Brexit negotiations.