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Veteran diplomat Catherine Colonna takes the helm at France's troubled foreign ministry When French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled his new government this week, the list included known heavyweights, newcomers, and personalities from both the left and the right. Among them was career diplomat Catherine Colonna – a former ambassador to the UK and only the second woman to take up the foreign ministry dossier – who inherits a host of complicated issues, from deteriorating relations with former French colony Mali to responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.