France’s Macron urges voters to join and say no to extremes BBC.comFrench President Emmanuel Macron defends decision to call elections The Washington PostMacron calls on moderates to unite against ‘extremism’ in French snap vote Al Jazeera EnglishFrance: Back to Dreyfus? Vichy? No Exit From Its Fraught History? The American ProspectFar-right gains in the EU election deal stunning defeats to France’s Macron and Germany’s Scholz The Associated Press