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French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita hold a press conference as they meet French soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)
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French President Emmanuel Macron, visits soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)
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French President Emmanuel Macron, center, and Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, center right, visit soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)
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French President Emmanuel Macron, visits soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)
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French President Emmanuel Macron, center, and Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, review troops as they visit soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)
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French President Emmanuel Macron, greets authorities as he visits soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)
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French President Emmanuel Macron, center right, and Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, right, review troops as they visit soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)
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FILE-- In the photo taken Saturday Feb. 2, 2013, French President Francois Hollande is surrounded by security as he greets a couple of thousands well-wishers during his two-hour-long visit to Timbuktu, Mali. France's new president Emmanuel Macron has chosen for his first official visit outside Europe the West African nation of Mali, a country where multiple extremist groups pose a growing danger to the region.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
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French President Emmanuel Macron, 3rd right, chairs his first cabinet meeting as President with his newly named ministers at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Thursday, May 18, 2017. French President Emmanuel Macron named a mix of prominent and unknown figures from the left and the right Wednesday to make up the government tasked with pushing through his plans to reduce labor protections, tighten European unity and boost military spending. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool)
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French President Emmanuel Macron, 2nd right, attends a cabinet meeting with his newly named ministers : Justice minister Francois Bayrou, right, Interior minister Gerard Collomb, 2nd left, and Foreign Affairs minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Thursday, May 18, 2017. French President Emmanuel Macron named a mix of prominent and unknown figures from the left and the right Wednesday to make up the government tasked with pushing through his plans to reduce labor protections, tighten European unity and boost military spending. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool)
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Newly named French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb waves during the handover ceremony in Paris, Wednesday May, 17, 2017 in Paris. Collomb has been a prominent Socialist politician in France since becoming mayor of Lyon in 2001, France's third biggest city. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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Newly named French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb speaks after the handover ceremony in Paris, Wednesday May, 17, 2017 in Paris. Collomb has been a prominent Socialist politician in France since becoming mayor of Lyon in 2001, France's third biggest city. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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CORRECTS AGE TO 52 Newly named French defense minister, Sylvie Goulard, 52, reviews an honor guard during an handover ceremony with her predecessor, Jean-Yves Le Drian, in Paris, France, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. French President Emmanuel Macron named a mix of prominent and unknown figures from the left and the right Wednesday to make up the government tasked with pushing through his plans to reduce labor protections, tighten European unity and boost military spending. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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CORRECTS AGE TO 52 Newly named French defense minister, Sylvie Goulard, 52, right, waves during an handover ceremony with her predecessor, Jean-Yves Le Drian, in Paris, France, Wednesday May, 17, 2017. French President Emmanuel Macron named a mix of prominent and unknown figures from the left and the right Wednesday to make up the government tasked with pushing through his plans to reduce labor protections, tighten European unity and boost military spending. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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Newly named French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, right, shakes hands with outgoing Interior Minister Matthias Fekl during the handover ceremony in Paris, Wednesday May, 17, 2017 in Paris. Collomb has been a prominent Socialist politician in France since becoming mayor of Lyon in 2001 _ France's third biggest city. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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FILE - In this Aug.31 ,2016 file photo, French former Agriculture minister Bruno Le Maire speaks in Jouy-en-Josas, south of Paris. Le Maire has been named as French Economy minister in French President Emmanuel Macron's first cabinet, Wednesday May 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
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Co-president of Paris 2024 bid Tony Estanguet, front center, takes a selfie of the back row from left, International Olympic Committee Evaluation Commission Chair Patrick Baumann, new French President Emmanuel Macron and member of the IOC Guy Drut as they pose during a group photo at the Elysee palace in Paris, France, May 16, 2017. France's new President Emmanuel Macron is hosting the International Olympic Committee to try to boost Paris' bid to beat out Los Angeles in the heated race for the 2024 Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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French President Emmanuel Macron arrives to lay a wreath of flower on the Unknown Soldier's tomb at the Arc of Triomphe monument after his formal inauguration ceremony as French President, Sunday, May 14, 2017 in Paris. Macron was inaugurated as France's new president at the Elysee Palace in Paris, and immediately launched into his mission to shake up French politics, world economics and the European Union. (Alain Jocard/Pool Photo via AP)
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Newly appointed French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, right, shakes hands with outgoing Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve in Paris, Monday, May, 15, 2017. French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Philippe, a relatively unknown 46-year-old lawmaker, as prime minister, making good on campaign promises to repopulate French politics with new faces. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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French President Emmanuel Macron greets veterans at the the Unknown Soldier's tomb under the Arc de Triomphe after his formal inauguration ceremony as French President Sunday, May 14, 2017 in Paris. Macron was inaugurated as France's new president at the Elysee Palace in Paris, and immediately launched into his mission to shake up French politics, world economics and the European Union. (Alain Jocard, Pool via AP)
