Emmanuel Macron's project to grant autonomous status to Corsica revives the desires of other territories, notably in Franche-Comté. In Doubs, the Corsican autonomy project has aroused renewed enthusiasm among regionalists.

Their leader, Jean-Philippe Allenbach, has been fighting for “a federal France” for several decades. “We want a federal France in a federal Europe. We are completely calling into question the centralist system. He hides the waste of public money,” he says.