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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 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
French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Rajadamnern Thai boxing stadium in Bangkok. Macron is joining other world leaders in Thailand for the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting. IMAGES
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron in Dublin. The French president, who is counting on the future French presidency of the EU to boost his probable re-election campaign, makes his return to the European scene during this short one-day visit. IMAGES
On the second day of his visit in Ivory Coast, French President Emmanuel Macron participates in the inauguration ceremony of an "agora", a sports complex in the Koumassi neighbourhood of Abidjan. IMAGES