Michel Barnier

Michel Barnier
Official portrait, 2024
Prime Minister of France
In office
5 September 2024 – 13 December 2024
PresidentEmmanuel Macron
Preceded byGabriel Attal
Succeeded byFrançois Bayrou
EU political 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 Delegate 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 September 1999
In office
2 October 1995 – 31 October 1995
Member of the National Assembly
for Savoie
In office
3 April 1978 – 1 May 1993
Preceded byMaurice Blanc
Succeeded byHervé Gaymard
Constituency2nd (1978–1986)
At-large (1986–1988)
2nd (1988–1993)
President of the General Council of Savoie
In office
14 March 1982 – 13 September 1999
Preceded byLouis Besson
Succeeded byHervé Gaymard
General councillor of Savoie
for the canton of Bourg-Saint-Maurice
In office
5 September 1973 – 13 September 1999
Preceded byAlexis Borrel
Succeeded byJacqueline Poletti
Personal details
Born
Michel Jean Barnier

(1951-01-09) 9 January 1951 (age 73)
La Tronche, France
Political partyLR (2015–present)
Other political
affiliations
UDR (1967–1976)
RPR (1976–2002)
UMP (2002–2015)
Spouse
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
Occupation
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Michel Jean Barnier (French: [miʃɛl baʁnje] ; born 9 January 1951) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from September to December 2024. A member of a series of Gaullist parties (UDR, RPR, UMP, LR), Barnier has served in several French cabinet positions under the governments from Édouard Balladur to François Fillon from 1993 to 2009. At the European Union (EU) level, Barnier was European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services from 2010 to 2014 and vice-president of the European People's Party (EPP) from 2010 to 2015. From October 2016 to 2021, he was the EU's chief negotiator on Britain's exit from the European Union.

In August 2021, Barnier sought his party's nomination for President of France in the 2022 presidential election, but obtained third place at the 2021 The Republicans congress. In September 2024 President Emmanuel Macron appointed him to the premiership following the 2024 snap legislative election.

At the age of 73, Barnier is the oldest person to take office as prime minister under the Fifth Republic. On 4 December 2024, three months into his tenure, his government was brought down by a vote of no confidence in Parliament.[1] The following day, Barnier and his government resigned on the understanding that the resignation would not take effect until a new government was formed.

Barnier is a pro-European, Gaullist conservative. He has advocated for stricter controls on extra-European immigration, expanding prison capacity and the introduction of mandatory minimum sentences for certain crimes.

  1. ^ "French PM Michel Barnier ousted in no-confidence vote". BBC News. Retrieved 5 December 2024.

Michel Barnier

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