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France's Prime Minister Michel Barnier delivers a speech at the National Assembly, in Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France’s budget battle: Why the government’s plan to plug the deficit is sparking an outcry

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

France's Prime Minister Michel Barnier delivers a speech at the National Assembly, in Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France’s fragile new government faces a no-confidence vote as far right offers critical support

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French President Emmanuel Macron, left, shakes hands with then-European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP, File)

France’s new government pledges hardline stance on migration as it cozies up to far right

By Diane Jeantet and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

New French prime minister Michel Barnier leaves the handover ceremony, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France’s new government meets for first time to discuss budget and migrant issues

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier, background center, French President Emmanuel Macron, foreground left, and Macron's wife, Brigitte Macron, foreground right, applaud during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paralympics, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

New center-right government in France announces 2 months after divisive elections

By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

France Unbowed leader Jean-Luc Melenchon, center, who criticized as a power grab the president's appointment of a conservative new prime minister, Michel Barnier, gestures as he participates in a protest demonstration in Paris, France, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Protesters rally in France against Barnier’s appointment as prime minister

By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

Michel Barnier, supporter of conservative presidential candidate Valerie Pecresse speaks during a campaign rally on Feb. 13, 2022, in Paris. President Emmanuel Macron named the former EU Brexit negotiator as France's new prime minister on Thursday after more than 50 days of caretaker government. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Macron names EU former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as France’s new prime minister

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EU’s Brexit chief eyes a role in French presidential vote

By LORNE COOK and SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom Michel Barnier talks to the media outside the EU headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. Teetering on the brink of a no-deal Brexit departure, Britain and the European Union stepped back from the void Sunday and agreed to continue trade talks, although both downplayed the chances of success. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

EU’s chief negotiator still hopes to clinch EU-UK trade deal

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

The European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom Michel Barnier gestures as he speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels Friday April 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

‘Disappointing’ week of divorce talks between EU and Britain

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom Michel Barnier speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, March 5, 2020. The Brexit negotiators have said there are many divergences between the 27-country bloc and the UK after the first round of negotiations aimed at defining their future relationship. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU’s Barnier warns of big divergences with UK in talks

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom Michel Barnier talks to journalists outside the EU headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. Barnier meets for talks with EU envoys on the mandate that member states will give him to secure a trade deal with the United Kingdom before the end of the year. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

EU approves tough negotiating mandate for UK trade talks

By RAF CASERT and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Lorries wait to board ferries on the morning after Brexit took place at the Port of Dover in Dover, England, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. If you thought the drawn-out battle over the U.K.'s departure from the European Union was painful, wait until you see what comes next. While Britain formally left the EU at 11 p.m. local time Friday, the hard work of building a new economic relationship between the bloc and its ex-member has just begun. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

U.K. and EU clash over trade with 11 months to make a deal

By Jill Lawless and Raf Casert - Associated Press

European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier rides an escalator on his way to a meeting about Brexit outside the EU headquarters in Brussels, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. European Union ambassadors are meeting in Brussels Friday to discuss what kind of extension to the Brexit deadline they could propose to Britain. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

EU’s Barnier warns of tough times ahead on UK trade deal

By RAF CASERT and BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

Anti-Brexit remain in the European Union supporters protest across the street from the Houses of Parliament in London, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. A Brexit divorce deal is still possible ahead of Thursday's European Union summit but the British government needs to move ahead with more compromises to seal an agreement in the next few hours, the bloc said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

The Latest: Customs, VAT issues seen holding up Brexit deal

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European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier arrives for a meeting of EU General Affairs ministers, Article 50, at the European Convention Center in Luxembourg, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier is in Luxembourg on Tuesday to brief ministers on the state of play for Brexit. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

The Latest: Scottish party won’t accept Brexit plans

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UK Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay, left, shakes hands with European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier before their meeting at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)

The Latest: EU, Britain to intensify talks on a Brexit deal

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, left, greets European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier prior to the start of the weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

The Latest: EU’s Tusk says Brexit part of brutality trend

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People queue to enter Manchester Central Convention Centre, where Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson will later deliver the Leaders's speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, England, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. Britain's ruling Conservative Party is holding their annual party conference. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

The Latest: EU Parliament’s Brexit official cautious on plan

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Anti-Brexit demonstrators with an effigy of British Prime Minister Theresa May near College Green at the Houses of Parliament in London, Monday, April 1, 2019. Britain's Parliament gets another chance Monday to offer a way forward on Britain's stalled divorce from the European Union, holding a series of votes on Brexit alternatives in an attempt to find the elusive idea that can command a majority. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

Warnings of chaotic ‘no-deal’ grow amid U.K. Brexit deadlock

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press