French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named centrist ally François Bayrou as prime minister after a historic parliamentary vote ousted the previous government last week.. Bayrou, 73, a ...

PARIS—French President Emmanuel Macron appointed François Bayrou as prime minister on Friday, picking a seasoned centrist to referee between France’s rowdy political factions and find a way ...

Macron names François Bayrou as French prime minister after government collapse. The new prime minister, a Macron ally, must try to assemble a government, regain control of France’s deficit and ...

Emmanuel Macron returned to the negotiating table on Friday to appoint a new prime minister six weeks after France’s failed snap election. The French president began meeting with party leaders ...

Despite a public denial of another election, his government is in such trouble that the French president seems tempted by ...

President Emmanuel Macron has named EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as France’s new prime minister after more than 50 days of caretaker government.

Amid continuing tensions among the European powers over how to respond to US President Donald Trump’s zig-zagging policy ...

Mr. Macron can appoint whomever he likes as the new prime minister — it does not need to be someone from the biggest party in Parliament. Until then, as caretaker prime minister, Mr. Barnier ...

France has announced a sweeping agreement granting more autonomy to the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia.