Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau accused him of authoring social media posts which "glorified terrorism".

Left-wing parties called for protests after Michel Barnier was appointed as prime minister on Thursday.

The new PM has met President Macron and embarked on the task of forming a government.

France’s leader has struggled to frame the July election as anything but a humiliating personal defeat.

France's new prime minister is best known even in his native France as the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator.

The French president names the EU's former Brexit negotiator almost two months after snap elections.

The protocol was negotiated less than two years ago, the EU's former chief Brexit negotiator says.

The former EU Brexit negotiator says he will take on Emmanuel Macron in the elections next spring.