Christophe de Voogd is president of the scientific and evaluation council of the Foundation for political innovation. Republicans, he says, must embody a middle path defending national sovereignty and the power of the EU.

“Double sovereignty” – national and European – that the Macronian discourse offers us, comes up against all the evidence,” he says. The “frexiteur’ discourse, including in its new “bruxiteer” version, comes against obstacles that are at least as insurmountable, he adds.