Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday moved Europe minister Clement Beaune, who performed a key function within the Brexit negotiations, to the shipping ministry in a cupboard reshuffle.

Only one-and-a-half months after the ultimate reshuffle, the overseas, finance and defence ministers remained unchanged however Macron in a wonder transfer named the manager economist of the Organisation for Financial Cooperation and Construction (OECD) Laurence Boone as new Europe minister.