
France's President Emmanuel Macron (C) poses with Ministers, local representatives, employees and founder and Director Victor Lamego as they lay on the first stone at the future site of the Occitanie Géotex plant, which will manufacture geotextiles for construction, roads, and agriculture using plant-based hemp fibers and wool produced in the region, in Laroque-d'Olmes, south-western France, on April 27, 2026. Emmanuel Macron will travel to south western France's Ariège department on April 27, 2026, a trip focused on reindustrialization and health, before a two-day visit to the microstate of Andorra of which his is also Co-Prince, where the sensitive issue of abortion will be discussed. (Photo by Valentine CHAPUIS / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)




