When, last Thursday, Emmanuel Macron proposed a "pause" in European environmental regulation, Arnaud Danjean could not help but see it as new proof of a double discourse. For the LR MEP, vice-president of the EPP (European right) in the European Parliament, this is a strong trend of Macronism that he has already observed on energy and immigration, beyond the environment. "For three years, on these issues, Macronist MEPs have been voting exactly the opposite of what Emmanuel Macron says or writes. It's very striking," he criticizes, referring to the successive episodes of these "contradictions".
The latest dates back to 10 May 2023: during a plenary debate requested by the EPP to denounce the excessive constraints on farmers, the Macronists oppose the right and "defend instead a full application of the Green Deal". They advocate a policy that has nothing to do with the "pause" that the president will propose the next day...
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