Surprise! Brexit Villain Michel Barnier is New French Prime Minister
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Top Eurocrat Michel Barnier is the new French Prime Minister, appointed 60 days after President Macron’s snap election which threw French politics into disarray with a three-way-split Parliament. Veteran French centrist-globalist politician Michel Barnier, who has held senior positions in the French government and European Union since 1993 is Emmanuel Macron’s pick to be the new Prime Minister, the role tasked with the day-to-day running of the state at the direction of the President. The role has been technically vacant 51 days since the previous Prime Minsiter Gabriel Attal resigned...
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