French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government Monday evening, putting together a team under Francois Bayrou, his fourth prime minister of the year, to drag the second-largest EU economy out of political crisis.

The foreign, defense and interior ministers from the government that collapsed this month return in Prime Minister François Bayrou’s new government.

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is running out of time to meet his self-imposed deadline to name a new cabinet that won’t be quickly toppled by a no-confidence vote in parliament.  A new team was widely expected to be unveiled over the weekend after Bayrou said last week he and President Emmanuel Macron would finalize their choice before the Christmas holiday.

The country's politics has been largely deadlocked since a snap election in July saw no party win a parliamentary majority.

President Emmanuel Macron and new Prime Minister Francois Bayrou kept the country waiting Sunday over the composition of the fourth government in a year that must drag France out of

The clock ticked Monday for French President Emmanuel Macron to appoint the fourth government in a year marked by a deepening political crisis.French politics has been deadlocked since Macron gambled on snap elections this year.

France awaited the appointment of a new government Sunday to lead the country out of political crisis, amid predictions that Francois Bayrou, the fourth prime minister of the year, will

The new government under PM Francois Bayrou will aim to quickly pass the 2025 budget and survive the test of a no-confidence motion by the opposition.