AS President of New Caledonia Alcide Ponga attends his first Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Honiara this week, the French government in Paris has collapsed. In a confidence vote in the French National Assembly, there’s been a stunning defeat for …

… what happened to his predecessor Michel Barnier less than a year … autonomy and calls for EU sourcing requirements for the … important political role in pushing EU-level coordination and cooperation … to important decisions for the EU’s economic outlook: within …

… . After Bayrou's predecessor Michel Barnier was ousted in a no … cuts needed to save the EU's second-biggest economy …

… impossible task as his predecessor, Michel Barnier: passing a budget through a … 2026—still higher than the EU’s 3 percent ceiling, and …

… long as his predecessor, Michel Barnier. Yet Bayrou is the … biggest beneficiary of the EU’s Next Generation post- … infrastructure investment. Now that EU authorities are tightening fiscal discipline … has shelved its more anti-EU and Nato-critical positions, …

… also has one of the EU's largest budget deficits … to the collapse of the Michel Barnier government in December, after left …

… scalp of his predecessor", Michel Barnier, after only three months as … and Greece, almost double the EU's limit of 60% … "persistently higher than the EU average". This crisis also …

… 2024 after the fall of Michel Barnier's government. Macron now … in 2023, almost double the EU’s 3% ceiling, and is …

… through prime ministers-Gabriel Attal, Michel Barnier, and now Bayrou-each unable … and a key figure in EU diplomacy, his international stature remains …

… euro zone, which uses the EU’s single currency. It offers … Minister before François Bayrou was Michel Barnier. Barnier’s government was also … policies and politics of the EU, significant Member State developments, and …