FRANCE-ELECTIONS Voting is under way for the first round of elections to France’s National Assembly, with President Emmanuel Macron seeking to secure a clear majority in the lower house for the centrist forces led by his Renaissance party. Moving ____ HUNGARY-POLITICS-EU Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announces in Vienna an alliance with populist parties from Austria and the Czech Republic at the EU level, dubbed Patriots for Europe, to form a new far-right group in the European Parliament. Moving ___ GERMANY-POLITICS-AFD The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is continuing its nat…