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France will fully nationalise EDF, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Wednesday, in a move that would give the government more control over a restructuring of the debt-laden group while contending with a European energy crisis.

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Wednesday that finding compromises, which had been forgotten for too long in French political life, will be one of her main aims as the government seeks to implement reforms without an absolute majority.

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is to lay out her main priorities at parliament Wednesday after the government lost its majority in elections last month

While the French daily newspapers continue to sift through the debris in the wake of the announcement of the second Elisabeth Borne cabinet, there is a sense of blessed relief as the same papers report on the intestinal disorders of London's ruling Conservatives.

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Wednesday her minority government wanted to reform pensions, nationalise the main utility EDF and shield citizens from raging inflation, urging the opposition to work with her to avoid policy gridlock.

In her first address to parliament, French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne said the country must prepare for Russian gas cuts. She also told MPs that French politicians have forgotten the virtue of compromise and that they “must give the word its meaning back” after President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist bloc lost…

Despite two weeks of negotiations aimed at creating a stable parliamentary majority with the aid of opposition groups considered "constructive", the Borne II cabinet named on Monday includes no members from the opposition ranks. A clear sign of failure, according to the majority of the French daily papers.

French President Emmanuel Macron shuffled his Cabinet after losing his outright majority in parliament last month but made few changes, in a sign that he’s failed to convince major opposition figures to join his coalition.

French President Emmanuel Macron has reshuffled his Cabinet in an attempt to adjust to the new political reality following a legislative election in which his centrist alliance failed to win a majority in the parliament

President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne have reshuffled the government for the second time in six weeks, hoping for a fresh start for Macron's second term, after his party lost its parliamentary majority in June elections.

France's lower house of parliament reopens on Tuesday, just ten days after an election upset for President Emmanuel Macron, who is now struggling build a stable majority with centrist allies.