Michel Barnier, the EU’s former Brexit negotiator now picked as prime minister to help France avoid a political crisis, has not always had kind words for his new boss, Emmanuel Macron.
“The president has governed this country, inside and overseas, in a solitary and arrogant manner,” the 73-year-old veteran centre-right politician said in a debate before Macron clinched his second electoral victory in 2022.
Macron has now chosen Barnier to do just the opposite: lean on his years of experience as a political dealmaker to forge some kind of working consensus in a French political landscape that has rarely been so fractured.
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