PARIS—President Emmanuel Macron charted a painstaking exit from France’s coronavirus lockdown on Tuesday amid a tug of war inside his cabinet over how quickly to reopen the economy.
On one side stands Mr. Macron’s prime minister and a panoply of health authorities and epidemiologists pulling for lockdown measures to remain in place. On the other lies Mr. Macron’s economy minister, backed by an army of retailers, who considers the Christmas-shopping season a make-or-break moment.
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