France’s Macron names former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as new PM

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President Emmanuel Macron has named Michel Barnier, the European Union’s former Brexit negotiator, as France’s new prime minister after more than 50 days of a caretaker government. Macron held talks with the veteran politician at the Elysee Palace on Thursday, tasking him with forming a new government in the hope of ending weeks of political deadlock in the country that followed snap parliamentary elections.

Al Jazeera's Natacha Butler reports from Paris.

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