I Think the Business Community Is Going to Be Pleased About This Win.

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A marine de pen win would have been profoundly stabilizing for a sort of european unity, and also just kind of the macro economy in europe at a pretty difficult time when inflation is running relatively high. I don't necessarily know that anybodyis going to be celebrating too much, because france has some social unrest in the coming months when macon starts to govern again.

Emmanuel Macron has been elected for a second term as president of France, the EU will force Big Tech to police content online more aggressively after approving a major piece of legislation, and Sri Lanka is working with the major multilateral agencies on ways to salvage the country from the current economic meltdown

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