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In Europe, Local Leaders Increasingly Frustrated with Pandemic Restrictions

Jamie Dettmer

   FRANKFURT - In Madrid, the mayor has bowed before the law of the land,
   but has vowed to take Spain's central government to the courts to try
   to reverse new more restrictive coronavirus lockdown rules.

   In Marseilles, the mayor has expressed her fury with Emmanuel Macron's
   government for ordering the closure of all restaurants and bars in
   France's second largest city, saying nothing justifies the order.

   In a string of northern English towns the anger is echoed. There,
   mayors are also questioning the orthodoxy of lockdowns, arguing that
   infection rates are trending up even in locked-down towns.

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