French Renegade Writer Predicts Ascent of New Prime Minister — and Thinks President Macron Would Do Well To Resign
Public confidence in government at Paris — as well as Berlin — is tanking, but that doesn’t spell the end of Europe (yet).

Will he be a keeper? That’s the question after President Macron named François Bayrou to be prime minister? That was on Friday, 10 days after Michel Barnier resigned as premier following a no-confidence vote
Mr. Barnier, sometimes known as Mr. Brexit, is now a footnote of history as the Fifth Republic’s shortest-serving prime minister. His successor is the bland but hale Mr. Bayrou. He seemingly came out of le bleu but is actually a career politician on the national level and also the long-serving mayor of the southern French town of Pau.
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