Maran Makron's Rival, Marine Lepen

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The crisis in ukraine has overshadowed a lot of the issues that other candidates, makron's rivals, were trying to raise in this election campaign. It looks from the polls as though his most likely a rival in the second round is going to be,. once again, a marine lepen of the farright rasamblemont national party. The move is meant to boost the stock price in the face of heavy operating costs and concerns over staff retension. Amazon also announced yesterday, a ten billion dollar share by back.

EU leaders prepare to meet in Versailles today for a summit aimed at a unified response to the war in Ukraine, and Citigroup is having a hard time selling its retail bank in Russia. Plus, the FT’s Paris bureau chief Victor Mallet explains how the Ukraine war is boosting Emmanuel Macron’s re-election chances.

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