PARIS – For over a year, French President Emmanuel Macron has cajoled his counterpart Donald Trump, convinced he could make him change his thinking on climate change, the Iran nuclear deal and world trade. But the 40-year-old leader acknowledged this week it didn’t work, and instead said he was focusing his efforts on European partners. “The partner with whom Europe had built the order of post-war multilateralism seems to turn his back on this common history,” Macron said Monday in an annual speech to French diplomats. For the first time since his election in May 2017, Macron appeared about to give up hope about influencing the 72-year-old U.S. president — what his aides often called “a work of conviction.” The turning point might have been last month’s contentious NATO summit in which Trump assailed allies for not spending enough on defense. A few days after, Macron met with Putin in Moscow. His office said he wanted to make Europe’s voice heard. Just a month before the NATO summit, Trump had already roiled the weekend Group of Seven meeting in Canada by agreeing to a joint statement on trade,
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