‘We’re not Hungary, Turkey or somesuch’: Macron rejects ‘illiberal’ accusations

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    French President Emmanuel Macron, in a more than two-hour-long, wide-ranging interview on Friday with the online media outlet Brut, rejected accusations his government had taken an illiberal turn with a contested bill to protect police officers and a crackdown on Islamist groups.

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