Two weeks after the disappointing outcome for Macron's party in the French parliamentary elections, President Emmanuel Macron has reorganized his government team.
However, he did not succeed in bringing representatives of the opposition parties into the cabinet, as can be seen from the list of government members published on Monday.
Solidarity Minister Damien Abad, who was confronted with allegations of rape, is leaving the government.
The new environment minister will be Christophe Béchu, mayor of Angers and number two of the centre-right Horizons party, which is in the government majority.
Macron is giving the allies more space than before.
Béchu is the sixth environment minister appointed by Macron since 2017 - and he immediately met with criticism: "I don't remember Christophe Béchu campaigning for environmental policy," said Jean-François Julliard, head of Greenpeace in France .
Economic expert Laurence Boone will be the new Minister for Europe;
she is chief economist at the OECD and former economic adviser to President François Hollande.
She will also be responsible for Franco-German relations and contact person for Minister of State Anna Lührmann.
Boone's predecessor, Clément Beaune, who was often in the spotlight during France's EU presidency, will become assistant minister for transport.
The new Minister of Health will be the doctor François Braun, who was last commissioned by Macron to report on emergency medical care.
He will have to deal with the seventh wave of Corona, which is currently gaining momentum in France.
So far, the government has refrained from taking any measures and has only called for people to wear masks on public transport voluntarily.
Former Health Minister Olivier Véran, who was Minister for Relations with Parliament for a few weeks, is the new government spokesman.