Michel Barnier La Tronche Isère 1951. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. Pin On The Medicine Chest Michel Barnier is running as a candidate for the French Presidential elections next year Image. Michel Barnier . EU chief Brexit negotiator and current candidate for French President Michel Barnier talks. While Boris Johnson kept. Barnier was the EUs chief negotiator in the torturous Brexit negotiations first as the two sides thrashed out a withdrawal deal and second as they brokered the terms of their future. Now is a moment of truth for the EU Fmr. MICHEL BARNIER has been on the inside track of Britains withdrawal from the European Union. Barnier may be unreasonably proud of his catchphrase the clock is ticking adopted right from the beginning but he is right that the British set a time limit that worked against themselves. MICHEL BARNIER has claimed that the EU could suspend the Brexit withdrawal agreement that he was instrumental in drawing up. He was the EUs i