It's the holidays for Emmanuel Macron.
The French head of state settled at Fort de Brégançon, the summer residence of the Presidents of the Republic in the Var, the Elysee confirmed this Friday, for a summer break presented as "studious".
He returned this Thursday from a long trip to Japan and then to French Polynesia.
Ia ora Porinetia (Long live French Polynesia)!
Ia ora te Hau Repupirita (Long live the Republic)!
Ia ora Farani (Long live France)!
Feedback on President @EmmanuelMacron's trip to French Polynesia.
https://t.co/aY8V0jgZnA
- Élysée (@Elysee) July 29, 2021
Last year, his vacation in south-eastern France was turned upside down by the terrible explosion in the port of Beirut, which killed more than 200 people on August 4, and his visit to the scene two days later.
One year later, to the day, he will organize a videoconference from Fort Brégançon, with the support of the United Nations, to try to meet the needs of the Lebanese, whose country has been stuck for months in an economic and political crisis.
Defense councils planned
In addition to the uncertainties of the news, the Head of State, like the government, will also follow the evolution of the Covid-19 crisis, which will be the subject of one or two Defense Councils by videoconference, including the first is announced on August 11.
It is also because of the health situation that the ministers were asked to spend holidays in France.
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And if Emmanuel Macron's program has not been revealed, nor the precise duration of his stay in the Var, he could also participate, as every year, in the ceremony commemorating the D-Day landings in Provence in mid-August in Bormes- les-Mimosas, where he had offered himself in previous years a walkabout with the inhabitants, in the company of his wife.
Fort de Brégançon, perched on a peninsula out of sight, has also become for Emmanuel Macron a diplomatic weapon, the Head of State having become accustomed to receiving foreign leaders there each summer, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin or Theresa May, then British Prime Minister.
