Killing Them Softly: Macron’s EU Election Man Challenges Brussels Political Order

Killing Them Softly: Macron’s EU Election Man Challenges Brussels Political Order
Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade at a cafe in Paris on Sept. 25, 2018. Reuters/Richard Lough
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PARIS—Emmanuel Macron ripped up the French political textbook with surprising ease last year, but repeating the feat in Europe next year is a tall order when there are decades of perceived French arrogance to overcome.

Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade, Macron’s European election emissary, has a front-seat role in persuading parties from across the left–right divide to rally behind the president’s drive to redraw the landscape and make Europe relevant again.