On the eve of donning the costume of President of the European Union for six months, Emmanuel Macron can rejoice: he will have a partner in Berlin who is determined to
"move Europe forward".
While Angela Merkel's prudence bordered on inertia, Olaf Scholz's "traffic light" coalition, where social democrats, liberals and Greens coexist, displays a "Europeanist" ambition that echoes that of the French president, remained a dead letter since his speech at the Sorbonne in 2017. Today, Berlin seems ready to go beyond market Europe to
“increase the strategic sovereignty”
of the Old Continent. Its declared objective is to
"lead to the evolution of the EU towards a European federal state",
at the cost of a revision of the treaties.
Beware of misunderstandings!
It is difficult to see Emmanuel Macron waving in front of French opinion the red rag of European federalism in the middle of the presidential campaign.
For Paris, Europe as a power must translate into a capacity to intervene in crises, which
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