The new French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has announced a new political course.
There will be “changes and disruptions,” the conservative politician told reporters in Paris.
France is “in a serious situation” and a new chapter is about to begin. “We will act more than talk,” said the 73-year-old former EU commissioner and Brexit negotiator.
Barnier said he wants to “respond to the challenges, the anger, the suffering, the sense of abandonment and injustice that pervades far too much our cities, our neighbourhoods and our rural areas.”
What is needed is more listening and respect between the government and parliament, between the political parties themselves and with the public, the new prime minister added.
French President Emmanuel Macron, a centrist, appointed Barnier as successor to Gabriel Attal, barely two months after early parliamentary elections failed to produce a clear coalition.
