Emmanuel Macron elected to second term as French president
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Emmanuel Macron has been elected for a second term as president of France, the EU will force Big Tech to police content online more aggressively after approving a major piece of legislation, and Sri Lanka is working with the major multilateral agencies on ways to salvage the country from the current economic meltdown
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EU approves groundbreaking new rules to police Big Tech
Emmanuel Macron set to be re-elected in France
UN asks Sri Lanka to negotiate ‘debt-for-nature’ swaps to ease economic meltdown
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk |
| 0:09.9 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:11.5 | Today is Monday, April 25th, and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:18.6 | French voters reelected Emmanuel Macron to a second term yesterday. |
| 0:22.1 | It's the first time France has reelected a president in 20 years. |
| 0:26.4 | France has made a choice here to kind of be pro-European again. |
| 0:30.0 | To stay sort of in a centrist, western liberal democracy model. |
| 0:34.1 | It's a big deal. |
| 0:35.7 | Also this weekend, you lawmakers approved tough new rules for Big Tech, |
| 0:40.3 | and Sri Lanka is working with the International Monetary Fund to find a way out of an economic meltdown. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:56.9 | We stand up. |
| 1:08.2 | That was the scene at President Emmanuel Macron's headquarters yesterday after French voters |
| 1:12.7 | reelected him. He beat far-right candidate Marine Le Pen for a second time. |
| 1:17.3 | This election was a rematch of the 2017 presidential election. |
| 1:21.2 | But it was still the strongest performance by the far right since World War 2. |
| 1:25.1 | The FT's Leila Aboude was at Le Pen's headquarters last night. |
| 1:29.0 | She joins me now. |
| 1:30.0 | Hey Leila. |
| 1:31.0 | Hello. |
| 1:32.0 | Leila. |
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