Inaugural mass was led by Paris archbishop Laurent Ulrich with 150 bishops and more than 100 priests from the capital in attendance, as well as French president Emmanuel Macron.
The downfall of prime minister Michel Barnier's government on Wednesday night was only the second time under France's Fifth Republic that an administration has been toppled by MPs in a no-confidence vote. In an interview with Mediapart's Fabien Escalona, law professor Bruno Daugeron examines the similarities and differences with the current situation and that of 1962, when prime minister Georges Pompidou's administration was also brought down. According to the academic, France is now paying the price for decades of what he terms “majoritarian presidentialism” that no longer works.
Donald Trump, the US president-elect, Jill Biden, America’s first lady, the Prince of Wales and Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, are among 1,500 guests attending the reopening event in Paris.
EU president Ursula von der Leyen announces Mercosur trade accord, delighting her fellow Germans but infuriating France which calls the deal unacceptable.
The president accused Macron accused the French far right and hard left of collaborating in an "anti-republican front" to bring Michel Barnier's government down.
President Macron is expected to move fast to name a replacement for Michel Barnier whose administration was toppled in a no confidence vote on Wednesday.
The collapse of Michel Barnier's administration on Wednesday night after a no-confidence vote has repercussions that spread beyond France itself. For example, the political crisis in Paris further complicates the European Union’s efforts to formulate a response to Donald Trump’s imminent return to power in the United States. And it also comes as negotiations on the EU-Mercosur trade agreement – which is deeply unpopular with French farmers – look as if they could be concluded by the end of this week. Mediapart's Brussels correspondent Ludovic Lamant reports.
A vote of no confidence brought down prime minister Michel Barnier’s short-lived administration last night, something that has only happened once before under France' Fifth Republic, and that was in 1962. Yet the vote – backed by 331 French MPs - will not persuade President Emmanuel Macron to change course. On the contrary, says Mediapart's political correspondent Ilyes Ramdani, the head of state is now actively seeking solutions from among his most loyal supporters about how to hold on until the summer when fresh parliamentary elections can be held.
The far-right leader has helped trigger France's second political crisis in six months and it's a decision that may come back to haunt her say politicians and analysts.
After using a decree to push through parliament a social security budget bill without a vote by MPs, French Prime Minister Michel Barnier and his minority government now face a vote of no-confidence on Wednesday which, supported by the far-right and radical-left, is most likely to succeed.
A prolific actor who was directed by Jacques Audiard and Steven Spielberg, who starred in the Oscar-nominated A Prophet, died on Sunday at his home in the Paris suburb of Ville-d'Avray after a long illness.
The stuffed beast, a star of the court of Louis XV after arriving in France in 1770, is on show at London's Science Museum, whose curator Glyn Morgan said photos do not show 'just how impressive and characterful it is'.
