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Prime Minister Barnier to resign as France’s political crisis deepens

BY REUTERS French Prime Minister Michel Barnier will resign on Thursday after far-right and leftist lawmakers voted to topple his government, plunging the euro zone’s second-largest economydeeper into political crisis. Barnier, a veteran politician who was formerly the European Union’s Brexit negotiator, will be the shortest-serving prime minister in modern French history after he hands in his resignation at around 10 am (0900 GMT). No French government had lost a confidence vote since Georges Pompidou’s in 1962. The political turmoil further weakens a European Union already reeling from the implosion of Germany’s coalition government, and comes weeks before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House. The hard left and far right punished Barnierin a no-confidence vote on Wednesday […] The post Prime Minister Barnier to resign as France’s political crisis deepens first appeared on 93.3 KFM.

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