What’s cooking in Paris? A victory • Table.Briefings

Yaël Braun-Pivet is the old and new President of the French National Assembly.

French MEPs have re-elected Yaël Braun-Pivet, a candidate from Emmanuel Macron’s camp, as President of the National Assembly. And things are also going surprisingly well for the president in other respects.

While the Members of the European Parliament confirmed Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission yesterday, the French MEPs re-elected Yaël Braun-Pivet, the current President of the National Assembly, to the office.

What’s cooking in Paris? A victory for Macron

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