(23 Sep 2024)
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Paris – 23 September 2024
1. French President Emmanuel Macron and ministers around table for cabinet meeting
2. Ministers around table
3. French Prime Minister Michel Barnier and ministers around table
4. Ministers around table
STORYLINE:
France’s new government dominated by conservatives and centrists gathered for the first time on Monday.
Prime Minister Michel Barnier convened a meeting in the morning with newly appointed ministers ahead of a cabinet session in the afternoon with centrist President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee presidential palace.
The long-awaited list of government members was unveiled on Saturday, more than two months after elections that produced a hung parliament and deepened political divisions as France grapples with growing financial and diplomatic challenges.
Speaking on Sunday evening in his first televised interview since the ministers’ appointment, Barnier acknowledged a key challenge for his government will be the 2025 budget bill to be debated at parliament starting from next month.
In June, the EU Commission recommended to seven nations, including France, that they start a so-called “excessive deficit procedure,” the first step in a long process before any member state can be hemmed in and moved to take corrective action.
Barnier also vowed to “control and limit immigration" in Sunday’s interview.
He said numbers of migrants coming to France “has become unbearable.”
He referred to measures taken by neighbouring countries like Germany, which this month ordered temporary controls at all land borders.
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