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Macron steps into a leadership vacuum in Europe, and on some toes
“The French think that they can act unilaterally without talking to everyone and get away with it, because they have a dynamic young leader with power and no one else does,” said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, a research institute.
The rejection of Ms. Goulard, herself a former European legislator, “is a reminder to Macron not to get too above himself,’’ he said.