French anti-foreign legion: an EU-election shock

Hard-right parties did well in Europe's parliamentary elections—so well in France that President Emmanuel Macron called (https://www.economist.com/europe/2024...) a risky snap election. Elsewhere, though, the political centre held. We examine the policies that are getting America’s many chronically truant students (https://www.economist.com/united-stat...) back in school (9:13). And the delicate business of naming a new car (https://www.economist.com/business/20...) (16:42).


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