Michel Barnier: Who is the new Prime Minister of France

Her new Prime Minister was appointed today Thursday (05.09.2024) by President Emmanuel Macron. Gabriel Atal’s 73-year-old successor, Michel Barnier, began his political career in the 1970s at the age of 27. Before he had played an important political role in both France and the European Union. In 2021, he had even announced his nomination in the 2022 presidential election with the Republican Party. In addition to managing the Brexit negotiation on behalf of the EU , he has a long career: He was a Member of Parliament, a Senator and a member of many governments of the French right in the 1990s and 2000, taking over various portfolios (European Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Environment, Agriculture etc.). He was also a two-time member of the European Commission (1999-2004 and 2010-2014). Michel Barnier, was appointed Head of the European Commission for the preparation and conduct of negotiations with the United Kingdom on Brexit on 1 October 2016. He was also the principal negotiator for the 2020 trade agreement between the United Kingdom and the EU and received the negotiating mandate from the European Council on 25 February 2020. In January 2021, the 73-year-old was appointed special adviser to President Ursula von der Leien overseeing the ratification of the European Union-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, in accordance with new arrangements that entrusted responsibility for the implementation of the agreement to Vice-President Maros Sefkovic. Barnier in 2021 created a political faction within the Republican Party named “Patriot and European” in preparation for a possible nomination in the 2022 French presidential election. In August of the same year Michel Barnier started his presidential campaign. At the Republican party conference in 2021, he came out third after Eric Sioti and Valerie Pekres, who eventually represented the party in the presidential election. Before the presidential election of 2022, which had visited Athens. Michel Barnier and the then MP of Serres and Secretary of International Relations of the New Republic, Tasos Hatzivassiliou had given the present. Two months after the early elections held in France in July 2024, President Emmanuel Macron examined a number of potential candidates for the premiership, eventually ending with Michel Barnier. The conservative politician was appointed Prime Minister of the country on September 5, 2024.