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French president Emmanuel Macron responded to a “battering” in the European Parliament elections by calling a “snap ballot”, says The Times. This has been seen as a “high-stakes gamble” that aims to “wrong-foot” the far-right National Rally and “discredit it as a serious party of government”. But that is “looking increasingly