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Wearing white laboratory coat and hair net, French President Emmanuel Macron tours the production site in Chartres, southwest of Paris, of Novo Nordisk . In a deal to be sealed officially with Macron today, Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk will invest 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in this existing facility to expand capacity for a blockbuster anti-obesity drug. Novo Nordisk is the European Union's most valuable company with market capitalisation of around $460 billion, mostly thanks to growing use of its anti-diabetes drugs as weight-loss derivatives. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by his wife and several ministers, visits Saint-Omer in the northern Pas-de-Calais region, which has been devastated by several days of rain, flooding and high water, to offer his support. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron visits an aluminium factory near Dunkirk, a town in the north of France which the presidential palace has set up as a "symbol" of its reindustrialisation policy geared towards the ecological transition. IMAGES
Emmanuel Macron visits the Mathis company, a wood factory involved in several construction sites for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This visit to Muttersholtz, a village in eastern France, comes as the French president tours the country hoping to turn the page on his unpopular pension reform. IMAGES
French president Emmanuel Macron visits a Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte ahead of a working dinner. Macron is on the first state visit by a French president to the Netherlands in 23 years. IMAGES