Bayrou heads to Élysée to hand in resignation as France’s PM – Europe live

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As we wait for first pictures of Bayrou at the Élysée, we are getting reports from Poland with the country’s prime minister Donald Tusk declaring it will close its border with Belarus on Thursday as a result of the “very aggressive” Zapad military exercises taking place in Belarus.

Tusk said that it was also a response to a growing number of provocations from Russia and Belarus.