First stress test for Macron

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Publication Date 31/05/2017
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Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks).According to media reports at the end of May 2017 Richard Ferrand, a close ally of Emmanuel Macron and France's new housing minister, profited from a property deal with his wife when he was the director of a regional health insurance fund six years ago. Although legally Ferrand cannot be accused of anything, together with Macron he campaigned in 2017 on the promise of raising moral standards in politics. Is this the first millstone around the new government's neck?

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