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French Prime Minister Jean Castex arrives shortly before 4pm at the Elysee Palace to hand in his resignation to Emmanuel Macron. According to corroborating sources within the executive, a transfer of power with his or her successor will take place around 7pm. IMAGES
Senegalese President Macky Sall receives French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe at the presidential palace in Dakar to discuss the fight against jihadism in the Sahel. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron shares a working dinner with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte after a visit to the Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. Macron's trip to the Netherlands, the first state visit by a French president to the country in 23 years, has been repeatedly disrupted by protests over his domestic troubles, with the visit's pomp providing little respite from a wave of protests at home against increasing the French pension age from 62 to 64. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte arrive on a boat ahead of their joint press conference. IMAGES
Emmanuel Macron hosts Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Elysee Palace in Paris for a working dinner to discuss the Ukraine crisis and other issues ahead of a European Council meeting. IMAGES
The Secretary General of the Presidency of the French Republic, Alexis Kohler, announces the names of the new ministers of prime minister Jean Castex's government. Gérald Darmanin takes over the ministry of the interior, thus succeeding ousted Christophe Castaner, lawyer Eric Dupond-Moretti is appointed minister of justice, Barbara Pompili minister of ecological transition and Roselyne Bachelot minister of culture. IMAGES