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Added on the 20/10/2020 17:36:02 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
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
The mayor of Arras, northeastern France, and a few dozen people gather in the Place des Héros, in front of the town hall to observe a minute's silence after a teacher was stabbed to death and two other adults severely wounded at a school, with President Emmanuel Macron denoucing an act of "Islamist terror". IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron summons Elisabeth Borne, Bruno Le Maire and several members of his government to "take stock" of the situation after five consecutive nights of violence sparked by the death of 17-year-old Nahel, killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Nanterre. 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