The French President Emmanuel Macron has told a gathering of art world figures that France must re-think its cultural policy, highlighting how culture and creativity can help fight extremism. At the event held last week at the Élysée Palace in Paris, the presidential residency, Macron highlighted the "political struggle we have today, fighting against obscurantism [extremism], and the marginalisation of creation and culture”. 

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