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Article snippet: (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • Emmanuel Macron will be sworn in as president of France next Sunday, and by then the country’s attention will have long turned to parliamentary elections next month. Their outcome is expected to reflect the electorate’s fragmentation and loss of faith in mainstream parties. Mr. Macron’s victory was a win for the European Union, but nationalism and populism are hardly dead across the bloc. Still, President Trump now finds himself facing pro-European leaders in France and Germany, who share a skeptical stance toward Russia. Moscow’s state-controlled news media, meanwhile, remained enthralled with Mr. Macron’s far-right opponent. “The victorious defeat of Marine Le Pen” one headline read. _____ • Facebook is trying to rein in the spread of fake news on its site before the general elections in Britain on June 8 with an information campaign in local newspapers. It said that it had removed possibly fake accounts and had tweaked its algorithms. The latest polls suggest that Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party maintains its commanding lead. The British political artist Banksy’s latest mural, in Dover, shows a workman chipping away at one of the 12 stars of the E.U. flag.. “They ought to make it the Brexit logo,” one resident said. _____ • The Syrian government threw doubt on a plan to create four “de-escalation zones” in the country, saying these could not ... Link to the full article to read more