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2024

Michel Barnier named as new PM

Former European Commissioner and former French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier has been appointed the new Prime Minister of France.

Barnier served as Foreign Minister in 2004-2005, and he also headed the EU Brexit negotiating team.

Gay Gabriel Attal at 34 became the youngest Prime Minister of France, and his partner headed the Foreign Ministry

In January 2024 France , President Emmanuel Macron appointed a 34-year-old associate as the country's prime minister to give new impetus to his administration months before the European Parliament elections, the president's Renaissance party said. Jewish-born homosexual Gabriel Attal became the youngest prime minister in French history. Previously, he had experience cohabiting with the leader of the Renaissance party, Stefan Sezhurne.

On January 11, Emmanuel Macron announced the composition of the cabinet of the new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. Some politicians remained in their places, but there are also changes: for example, Stefan Sezhurne was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Sezhurne's political career began in 2014 under the leadership of Macron, who was then the Minister of Economy of France, and subsequently continued to rotate in his orbit - as part of the Youth with Macron project, his election campaign and, finally, headed the Renaissance party created by him in 2016. In the role of the MEP, according to his entourage, he showed himself as an "unsurpassed negotiator."

Stefan Sejournay

As minister, Sezhurne is going to work in three directions: strengthening the authority of international organizations (NATO, UN, WTO, WHO), developing assistance to civilians in crisis zones (Ukraine and the Middle East) and forming cooperation between European countries in the field of security and defense - including the revival of relations between France, Germany and Poland within the Weimar Triangle.

Given that Attal and Sezhurne lived together for several years, there is a conflict of interest. But the French media, it seems, have not yet fully decided how to treat this Santa Barbara, and publish conflicting information about the status of relations between politicians, wrote the Rybar channel.

2023: French Economy Minister Bruno writes erotic stories in his office

In April 2023, it became known that French Economy Minister Bruno was writing erotic stories in his office. Among his lines: "She rushed to the bed. She showed me the brown bulge of her anus. Are you coming, Oscar? I was more excited than ever before. "

2020: Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon goes to prison for embezzlement of state funds

At the end of June 2020, former French Prime Minister François Fillon and his Welsh-born wife Penelope were sentenced to prison for embezzlement of public funds. Read more here.