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Added on the 05/05/2022 17:00:47 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Wearing white laboratory coat and hair net, French President Emmanuel Macron tours the production site in Chartres, southwest of Paris, of Novo Nordisk . In a deal to be sealed officially with Macron today, Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk will invest 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in this existing facility to expand capacity for a blockbuster anti-obesity drug. Novo Nordisk is the European Union's most valuable company with market capitalisation of around $460 billion, mostly thanks to growing use of its anti-diabetes drugs as weight-loss derivatives. IMAGES
Tens of thousands of French leftists answer a call by firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon to throng the streets of Paris in protest over President Emmanuel Macron's sweeping reforms of the labour code. IMAGES
A procession of demonstrators sets off from Place de la Bastille in Paris. The left has called for demonstrations across France to denounce Macron's 'coup de force' following the appointment of LR politician Michel Barnier as Prime Minister. IMAGES
France and Serbia sign a deal for Rafale fighter jets along with several other agreements shortly after French president Emmanuel Macron arrived for a two day visit to Serbia. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron is transported along avenue Foch in the "command car" during the Bastille Day military parade in Paris before greeting members of his government and the army. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron boards the "command car" with the army's Chief of Staff, General Thierry Burkhard, during the military parade to mark Bastille Day, which, this year, takes an unusual route because of the upcoming Olympic Games. IMAGES