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Le Pen visits French factory, Macron wins ally before runoff
France's presidential candidates are pushing their rival views of Europe, as far-right Marine Le Pen calls the shared euro currency "dead" and centrist Emmanuel Macron visits a Holocaust memorial and calls for unity. A day after European Union leaders nailed down their negotiating stance over Britain's departure, attention is now on France as its voters decide May 7 whether to choose Le Pen, whose anti-EU stance could unravel post-war unity, or Macron, who wants greater European cooperation and trade. "I think the euro is dead," Le Pen is quoted as saying in Sunday's Le Parisien. While she is sticking to plans ... (full story)