Barnier, who hails from the Haute Savoie region of the Alps, first become a member of France's parliament aged just 27 in the 1970s, and entered government in the mid-1990s under the then ...

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 ...

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 ...