Mr Barnier, who was brought out of retirement by Mr Macron to stabilise the government in September, triggered Article 49.3 to force through a contentious new social security budget.

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PARIS - The French government is prepared to show flexibility ... The full details of the plan – whose banner policy of raising the retirement age from the current level of 62 has been rejected ...

But those policies angered ... yet a plan to raise the retirement age — considered sacrosanct in France — proved another misstep. It fueled yet more mistrust of government for Le Pen to ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office announced a new government Monday, after the previous Cabinet collapsed in a ...

Michel Barnier, the French prime minister ... Mr Barnier, who was brought out of retirement by Mr Macron to stabilise the government in September, triggered Article 49.3 to force through a ...

How does the French government work? The prime minister invoked a rare constitutional power to push through his budget without parliament’s approval. Mr Barnier, who was brought out of retirement by ...