Minister of Justice: Didier Migaud
Minister for Territorial Partnerships and Decentralization: Catherine Vautrin
Minister of the Interior: Bruno Retailleau
Minister of National Education: Anne Genetet
Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs: Jean-Noël Barrot
Minister of Culture and Heritage: Rachida Dati
Minister of Defense: Sébastien Lecornu
Minister of Ecological Transition, Energy, Climate, and Risk Prevention: Agnès Pannier-Runacher
Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry: Antoine Armand
Minister of Health and Access to Care: Geneviève Darrieussecq
Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy, and Gender Equality: Paul Christophe
Minister of Housing and Urban Renewal: Valérie Létard
Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, and Forestry: Annie Genevard
Minister of Labor and Employment: Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet
Minister of Sports, Youth, and Community Life: Gil Avérous
Minister of Higher Education and Research: Patrick Hetzel
Minister of Civil Service, Streamlining, and Public Sector Transformation: Guillaume Kasbarian
Barnier, who was named premier earlier this month, first submitted an initial list of Cabinet members to President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday following days of tense negotiations over the makeup of the government.
Key figures within the pro-Macron coalition had raised concerns over rumors that Barnier was open to the idea of raising taxes to reduce France’s growing deficit — a prospect Macron’s Renaissance party had identified as a “red line.”
Then there was an issue over how many key Cabinet positions the Republicans — Barnier’s conservative party, which holds a small number of seats in the French National Assembly — would secure at the expense of Macron’s centrists. The French president urged his prime minister to build a government which would lean towards “national unity.”
Barnier ended up with a government that includes a mix of holdovers from the last administration, several conservative newcomers and first-time centrist appointees.
Taken together, it is “the most right-wing government since the Fillon administration under Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidency” more than a decade ago, veteran political commentator Alain Duhamel said on news channel BFM after the government was announced.