French president Emmanuel Macron's bid to place his top candidate as head of a new centrist alliance in the European Parliament has backfired.
His former EU affairs minister, Nathalie Loiseau, was aiming to lead Renew Europe, a new European Parliament political grouping composed of his own pro-European Republic on the March (La Republique En Marche) party and the liberal Alde group.
But a flurry of "off the record" insults by Lo...
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