After just three months in office, Barnier will now go down in history as the shortest-serving prime minister since the Fifth Republic, the system of government in France from 1958.

Michel Barnier is expected to go down as the shortest-serving prime minister in modern French history as both Left and Right unite to end his government. The 73-year-old former Brexit negotiator ...

France’s veteran European Union ambassador was nearly fired before Christmas but got a last-minute stay of execution when the man who wanted to oust him, former Prime Minister Michel Barnier, lost his ...

The left, particularly the France Unbowed party, views former EU chief Brexit negotiator Mr Barnier’s conservative background as rejecting the electorate’s will, further intensifying the EU ...