Mike Freeman, head of international operations for the Road Haulage Association, accused the French of ill-discipline.

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He will join Stanford as a visiting scholar at the university's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and will also be a visiting fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.

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