A welcome return to normality: how France sees the Macron-Sunak summit

Élysée sees moment as a turning of the page after a nightmare chapter in cross-Channel relations As Emmanuel Macron prepares to welcomes Rishi Sunak to Paris's Franco-British summit on Friday, the Élysée sees it as a "turning of the page" - the end of a nightmare chapter in cross-Channel relations. The mood between France and the UK had in recent years plummeted to its worst state in decades with bitter rows over submarine contracts, fishing rights and who was to blame for the catastrophic d...