Michel Barnier: the day after the appointment of his government, the Prime Minister is invited to the 8pm news on France 2

This Sunday, September 22, Prime Minister Michel Barnier will be the guest of the 8 p.m. news on France 2. 

Michel Barnier will be the guest on the 8pm news on France 2 on Sunday, the day after Emmanuel Macron appointed his government, the Prime Minister's entourage and the public channel have announced.

A fragile combination

Born in pain to try to end a long political crisis, Michel Barnier's team, a fragile combination between the Macronists and the right, is already under fire from the left and the National Rally, who hold its survival in their hands.

After weeks of procrastination, the new French government led by Michel Barnier was finally announced on Saturday, an executive of 39 ministers who lean clearly to the right, and whose first task will be to get the budget voted through.

The new team, which gives pride of place to the Macronist Renaissance party, is strictly gender-balanced, composed of 19 full ministers, 15 delegate ministers and five secretaries of state. It will meet around Emmanuel Macron on Monday at 3 p.m. for its first Council of Ministers.

An expected general policy speech

But the center-right team, which its main shareholders are even reluctant to call "coalition", is immediately marked by the tensions between Michel Barnier and the "central bloc" of President Macron, who governed without sharing for seven years.

While waiting for his general policy statement on October 1, Michel Barnier, 73, known for having negotiated the United Kingdom's exit on behalf of the European Union during Brexit, has only stated vague priorities.

Among them, improving the "standard of living" and public services, "control" immigration, “the economic attractiveness of France”, the reduction of the “ecological debt” and the “control of public finances”. A question mark remains over taxes, which will not, however, increase for “the middle classes”.