•France’s President Emmanuel Macron (R) and new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu (L) French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday named defence minister and his close ally Sebastien Lecornu as the new prime minister to resolve a deepening political crisis as protests loom in the next days. In choosing Lecornu, 39, to replace Francois Bayrou as ...
•French President Emmanuel Macron French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a “meeting of different political forces” to hammer out a programme for a new government, the Greens party leader said today amid a political crisis triggered by Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s ouster. Macron had suggested a “new method” to put together an execut...
•President Emmanuel Macron The administration of French President Emmanuel Macron published the formal text of a new immigration law in its Official Journal today, with the first instructions on applying the legislation already presented to officials. The law’s promulgation comes after France’s Constitutional Council censured 35 of its 86 arti...

