Embattled French President Macron gets some tailwind from German Chancellor Merkel

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BERLIN - German chancellor Angela Merkel, in a sharp reversal, has agreed to financial aid that comes very close to the controversial so-called 'corona bonds'.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Medical personnel confronted the president with the facts on the ground when he recently paid a visit to the"La Pitié Salpêtrière" hospital in Paris. When talking to doctors the French leader admitted to a severe lack of personnel and supply. Another hospital staff later told him that he was not interested in awards for his work. Seemingly unfazed, he told the president:"We will not be fobbed off with medals.

The boyish Mr Macron, who became a shooting star in 2017 when he swiftly rose to power succeeding Francois Hollande in the Élysée Palace, also seems to have lost touch with the movement that helped him to fame. Significant cracks have emerged in his political party"La République en marche" with a number of its deputies already quitting and signalling that they would be forming a new left-leaning faction in parliament.

"In 2017, I left the Socialist Party because it was unable to go beyond its borders", Mr. Taché said."Today, I'm leaving LREM for exactly the same reasons."

 

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