Michel Bernard Barnier

After June/July legislative polls that produced no overall majority and weeks of negotiation where neither he nor the left were prepared to make the compromises required to form a government the president turned rightwards and appointed the 73-year-old conservative Michel Barnier a former foreign minister and European Commissioner as prime minister...

However Michel Barnier the EU's chief negotiator expressed frustration after the fourth round of talks in June that his UK counterparts had not broached the subjects at all...

Formal talks with the EU negotiating team led by Michel Barnier a highly experienced French former Foreign Minister and two-time EU Commissioner started on 19 June...

In October 2011 the EU Single Market Commissioner France’s former Foreign Minister Michel Barnier published the proposed amendments which went further than many had expected...

' French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier favours market stabilisation and public support for producers especially in vulnerable sectors...

Reform of France's Africa policy has been set back with the sacking of Foreign Minister Michel Barnier and his replacement by a diplomatic novice Philippe Douste-Blazy...

French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier on 25 April said the conditions under which the elections had taken place were 'on the whole satisfactory'...

So too was France's Foreign Minister Michel Barnier a sign say observers that Faure has clout with France...

That disaster has turned President Idriss Déby against Khartoum as he showed during July's visit by French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier...

He will no doubt be relieved to hand on this particular dossier to his successor Michel Barnier appointed in a cabinet shuffle following the centre-right government's poor showing in the 28 March regional elections...