Michel Barnier

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Michel Barnier

Michel Bernard Barnier (born 9 January 1951) is a conservative French politician who was the Prime Minister of France from September 2024 to December 2024. He was the European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom (UK Task Force/UKTF) from 2019 to 2021. He was Chief Negotiator - Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom from October 2016 to November 2019.[1][2][3]

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Michel Barnier
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Prime Minister of France
In office
5 September 2024  13 December 2024
PresidentEmmanuel Macron
Preceded byGabriel Attal
Succeeded byFrançois Bayrou
EU offices
Head of the UK Task Force
In office
16 November 2019  31 March 2021
PresidentJean-Claude Juncker
Ursula von der Leyen
DeputyClara Martínez Alberola
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byJoão Vale de Almeida (as Ambassador to the United Kingdom)
Chief Negotiator of Task Force 50
In office
1 October 2016  15 November 2019
PresidentJean-Claude Juncker
DeputySabine Weyand
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services
In office
10 February 2010  31 October 2014
PresidentJosé Manuel Barroso
Preceded byCharlie McCreevy
Succeeded byElżbieta Bieńkowska
European Commissioner for Regional Policy
In office
16 September 1999  31 March 2004
PresidentRomano Prodi
Preceded byMonika Wulf-Mathies
Succeeded byJacques Barrot
Member of the European Parliament
for Île-de-France
In office
14 July 2009  10 February 2010
Succeeded byConstance Le Grip
French political offices
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries
In office
19 June 2007  22 June 2009
Prime MinisterFrançois Fillon
Preceded byChristine Lagarde
Succeeded byBruno Le Maire
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
31 March 2004  31 May 2005
Prime MinisterJean-Pierre Raffarin
Preceded byDominique de Villepin
Succeeded byPhilippe Douste-Blazy
Minister for European Affairs
In office
18 May 1995  3 June 1997
Prime MinisterAlain Juppé
Preceded byAlain Lamassoure
Succeeded byPierre Moscovici
Minister of the Environment
In office
29 March 1993  18 March 1995
Prime MinisterÉdouard Balladur
Preceded bySégolène Royal
Succeeded byCorinne Lepage
Senator for Savoie
In office
22 September 1997  23 October 1999
In office
2 October 1995  31 October 1995
Member of the National Assembly
for Savoie's 2nd constituency
In office
3 April 1978  1 May 1993
Departmental Councillor of Savoie
In office
5 September 1973  13 September 1999
Personal details
Born (1951-01-09) 9 January 1951 (age 74)
La Tronche, France
Political partyLR (2015–present)
Other political
affiliations
UDR (1967–1976)
RPR (1976–2002)
UMP (2002–2015)
Spouse(s)
Isabelle Altmayer
(m. 1982)
Children3
RelativesÉric and Nicolas Altmayer (brothers-in-law)
René Altmayer (grandfather-in-law)
Victor Joseph Altmayer (great-grandfather-in-law)
Alma materESCP Business School
OccupationDiplomatPolitician
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Personal life

Michel Jean Barnier was born at La Tronche in the French Alps, into a Gaullist family in 1951. He graduated from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP) in 1972.[4] During his studies at the ESCP, he was a classmate of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, future prime minister.[5][6]

Politcal career

In France, he was minister of foreign affairs from 2004 to 2005, minister of state for European affairs from 1995 to 1997 and minister of the environment and way of life from 1993 to 1995.

Barnier unsuccessfully ran for President of France in the 2022 election.

Prime Minister

On 5 September 2024, Barnier was appointed as Prime Minister by President Emmanuel Macron.[7] At aged 73, he is the oldest person to become prime minister in the French Fifth Republic.[8] His appointment was very controversial since he was seen as a conservative choice for a divided National Assembly.[9]

Removal

On 2 December 2024, Barnier resorted to using Article 49.3 of the French Constitution to push through the 2025 budget without a vote. The left-wing New Popular Front had already declared its plans to file a motion of no confidence against the government. Marine Le Pen announced later that day her plan to file her own party's motion against the government.[10] On 4 December, a majority of deputies voted to end Barnier's government, which became the first to lose a motion of no-confidence since Georges Pompidou's in 1962.[11]

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