Alexandre Devecchio: "Macron's new words"

And suddenly Emmanuel Macron changed your tone: "We must rebuild our national and European sovereignty", he launched, on March 31, during a visit to an Angers SME manufacturing masks. He continued: "Our priority today is to produce more in France." Du Montebourg in the text.

In times of crisis, a fortiori of "war" , people identify with the nation and it becomes the unique framework of all heads of state, even the most pro-European. It is perhaps the quest for unity and the exceptional character of the period that led Emmanuel Macron to this turn. Speech without a future or a revolution?

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These words are in any case part of a process that started a long time before the virus appeared. This health crisis is in fact part of a larger political recomposition. As François Lenglet analyzed in our columns, "the virus does not change anything by itself, it is only a precipitating factor, in the chemical sense

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