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Sunday, December 24, 2017

France Named Country of the year 2017 by 'The Economist' Thursday Dec 21,2017,

The Economist named France as its country of the year on Thursday Dec 21,2017, saying new President Emmanuel Macron had upset the odds to strike a victory for open societies and reform.

The London-based weekly news magazine said the battle between open and closed visions of society was the most important in the world in 2017 and Macron had defeated the "drawbridge-raisers".

"In 2017, France defied all expectations," The Economist said in an editorial in its December 23-January 5 edition.

The centrist Macron`s successful presidential election campaign, without the backing of a traditional party, followed by his start-up Republic on the Move (LREM) movement winning the most seats in the National Assembly, was a "stunning upset", the magazine said

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