
Macron protégé Lecornu named to handle budget crisis – something old or something new?
First day on the job for a new French prime minister, and the long-announced date for a Yellow Vests-style day of protest against austerity. Sébastien Lecornu taking the handover from predecessor François Bayrou who also passed on the bigger political hot potato, that of a budget that still needs passing, Bayrou undone by an opposition-led parliament.
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