The 39-year-old is the only minister to have remained in Macron’s government since the President was elected in 2017.

France's new prime minister, Sebastien Lecornu, pledged to find creative ways to work with rivals to pass a debt-slimming budget while also promising new policy directions, after taking office on a ...

Legislators toppled France's government in a confidence vote, a new crisis for Europe's second-largest economy. Prime ...

France has been plunged into a new political crisis with the defeat of Prime Minister François Bayrou at a confidence vote in ...

Sébastien Lecornu, France’s fourth prime minister in a year, faces big challenges like a ballooning deficit and unrest.

The National Assembly voted to force François Bayrou to resign, France’s second government collapse in less than a year, which sets the stage for the fourth premier in 20 months.

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron late Tuesday appointed Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu as France’s new prime minister, the country’s fourth in about a year. Lecornu, 39, is the ...

France’s prime minister has quit after losing a confidence vote that toppled his government, plunging the country into a new political crisis.

PARIS (AP) — Another prime minister gone. Another crisis unfolding. In France, what once shocked is now routine. Prime Minister François Bayrou submitted his resignation Tuesday after losing a ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron, right, shakes hand with France's Prime Minister Francois Bayrou during the farewell ceremony of Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces Thierry Burkhard, in the ...

One day after François Bayrou lost a vote of confidence, Emmanuel Macron asked Sébastien Lecornu, a longtime loyalist who had ...