{"id":60378,"date":"2024-09-05T17:10:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T13:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=60378"},"modified":"2024-09-05T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T13:10:15","slug":"president-macron-names-michel-barnier-as-french-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2024\/09\/05\/president-macron-names-michel-barnier-as-french-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"President Macron names Michel Barnier as French prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Michel Barnier, the European Union&#8217;s former Brexit negotiator, as prime minister on Thursday. Barnier is tasked with forming a new government, which is likely to end weeks of political deadlock after Macron called a snap election that delivered an unwieldy hung parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barnier will now have to survive a no-confidence vote in the National Assembly, France\u2019s lower house of the parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A veteran of the recently renamed Republican Right party (LR), Barnier has had a long political career in France and the EU, having served twice as European Commissioner and, between 2016 and 2021, the chief EU negotiator for Brexit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 73, he is the oldest prime minister of the Fifth Republic at the time of his appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Michel Barnier, the European Union&#8217;s former Brexit negotiator, as prime minister on Thursday. Barnier is tasked with forming a new government, which is likely to end weeks of political deadlock after Macron called a snap election that delivered an unwieldy hung parliament. Barnier will now have to survive a no-confidence &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":60379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60380,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60378\/revisions\/60380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}