French Prime Minister Michel Barnier will resign on Thursday after far-right and leftist legislators voted to topple his government, plunging the euro zone’s second-largest economy deeper 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. FRANCE 24’s International Affairs Editor Philip Turle tells us more.
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‘Unprecedented political territory’: Fall of government leaves France without clear path
