The Humbling of Emmanuel Macron
The French president’s struggle to get a grip on the Covid-19 pandemic has undermined him at home and abroad and left him casting around for a strategy
Emmanuel Macron
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For a man who had aspired to rule like a Roman god, the pandemic has left Emmanuel Macron’s vision of a multilateral world order in tatters and his own leadership back in France in question.