Prime Minister François Bayrou of France said on Tuesday that he was open to changing the country’s unpopular pension law, which raised the retirement age to 64 from 62, as he sought to build support in Parliament and keep his government afloat. The 2023 law was championed by President Emmanuel Macron in the name of…
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, spoke on Wednesday in Paris of the challenges already posed to U.S. alliances by the imminent return of Donald J. Trump to the White House, and said they believed that an American takeover of Greenland was an impossible idea. But they also asserted…
New French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou will meet with the heads of parliamentary groups on Monday and Tuesday, starting with Marine Le Pen of the far-right Rassemblement National, he told La Tribune Dimanche in an interview. Bayrou, whose appointment on Friday made him the fourth person to serve as French prime minister this year, will…
French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Francois Bayrou as France’s new Prime Minister. Francois Bayrou, a 73-year-old centrist ally of Macron, faces immediate challenges including passing a special law to extend the 2024 budget and navigating the 2025 budget legislation. He will lead a government in a hung parliament divided into three rival blocs, a…
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named Francois Bayrou his third prime minister of 2024, tasking the veteran centrist with steering the country out of its second major political crisis in the last six months. The priority for Bayrou, a close Macron ally, will be passing a special law to roll over the 2024 budget,…