President Emmanuel Macron of France named the choices less than three weeks after the previous government collapsed. He had already picked François Bayrou as prime minister.

France’s president and prime minister managed to form a new government just in time for the holidays. Now comes the hard part.

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"Mayotte is demolished," an airport security agent told President Emmanuel Macron as he arrived in the remote French territory five days after Cyclone Chido.

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Thursday in the Indian Ocean island of ... Mayotte, with a population of 320,000 residents and an estimated 100,000 additional migrants, is France’s poorest territory. It is part of an archipelago located between ...

French President Emmanuel Macron expressed full support on Saturday for Ethiopia's debt restructuring efforts, emphasising the need for a swift resolution "in the coming weeks".

In a bid to end political turmoil, France's president named Francois Bayrou prime minister. One lawmaker likened France's crisis to a 'bad movie.'

French President Emmanuel Macron has traveled to the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte to survey the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Chido.

Political instability in Germany and France, combined with the return of Donald Trump in 2025, threatens to undermine the EU's ability to shape responses to the Ukraine war and other geopolitical and economic challenges.

Marine Le Pen on Tuesday predicted that the new French government would swiftly fall and that France would choose “a new path at worse within months”, suggesting Emmanuel Macron’s days are numbered.

France marked a day of mourning Monday for victims of Cyclone Chido, which devastated its poorest territory, Mayotte, over a week ago.