Despite having negotiated complex moments like Brexit, he will likely face a vote of no confidence this Wednesday, only three months after taking office. He managed one of the most significant crises in Europe,

Michel Barnier is expected to go down in history as France’s shortest-serving prime minister today as both Left and Right unite to end his government. The 73 year-old former Brexit negotiator, nicknamed “Babar” after the unflappable cartoon elephant,

Should Prime Minister Michel Barnier's administration be ousted, it will be first time France has witnessed such an event in more than 60 years.French lawmakers are set to hold a no-confidence vote on Wednesday that could spell the end of the short-lived and tumultuous administration of Prime Minister Michel Barnier.

By Benoit Van Overstraeten and Diana Mandia PARIS (Reuters) -French lawmakers are all but certain to oust the government with a no-confidence motion on Wednesday, plunging the euro zone's second-biggest economic power deeper into political turmoil.

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier is bracing for a no-confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday in which parties from the left and the right are expected to join forces to oust him after he forced through his budget.

French lawmakers are to hold a vote of no confidence on Wednesday to decide on the future of the centre-right government led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier. From 4 pm (1500 GMT), two motions are to be debated and voted on in the National Assembly - France's lower house - submitted by the left-wing camp and the far-right nationalists around Marine Le Pen.

Sabrina Khanniche, senior economist at Pictet Asset Management, says the likelihood that French Prime Minister Michel Barnier's government will remain in place has "diminished quite substantially."