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Michel Barnier , a long-time Eurocrat, appointed as France 's new PM.
Until Barnier’s appointment, France had gone 60 days without a PM and without a functioning government.
Barnier will be expected to report not only to Macron , but also to his old bosses in Brussels .
A technocratic lock has been around French politics just fine.
A study published in 2023 found that the proportion of technocratic’ or apolitical’ government ministers in Europe surged by 50 per cent between 2000 and 2020 .
These technocrats usually occupy the most important offices, like prime minister and finance minister.
The coronation of Michel Barnier is a stark reminder of where the real threat to democracy’ comes from today not from the populists, but from the technocratic elites.
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