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President Emmanuel Macron has appointed 34-year-old former education minister Gabriel Attal as France’s new prime minister, the Élysée Palace announced on Tuesday, after Élisabeth Borne’s centrist government resigned the previous day. Macron is eager to reorganize the government following recent difficulties in passing the new immigration law. Elections to the European Parliament are scheduled for the spring and France is organizing the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer. Attal is a political high-flyer who was known to the French as a government spokesman. Most recently, he headed the…

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