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Macron: "The pitfalls of a European presidency"

2021-12-08T20:35:54.676Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Vincent Trémolet de Villers. " Q hen I hear the word Europe, I leave my pillow": the famous formula of Claude Imbert still resonates. This shows whether Emmanuel Macron's bet - to make his presidency at the head of the European Union a national springboard - is risky. Admittedly, the function impresses, but it associates it with an institution which is indifferent, when it does not exceed a large part of the public. Admittedl


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hen I hear the word Europe, I leave my pillow"

: the famous formula of Claude Imbert still resonates. This shows whether Emmanuel Macron's bet - to make his presidency at the head of the European Union a national springboard - is risky. Admittedly, the function impresses, but it associates it with an institution which is indifferent, when it does not exceed a large part of the public. Admittedly, many solutions to our problems must be worked out at the scale of the continent (external borders, digital independence, trade war), but the Commission, the Parliament, the Court of Justice make up the triangle of Bermuda in which disappear, too often , the most ambitious political initiatives. The prestige of large groups distinguishes you from simple regional presidents, it also distances you dangerously from the concerns of the French.

Faced with Marine Le Pen or Eric Zemmour, the effect of contrast would however allow Macron, in a perilous dialectic, to

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Source: lefigaro

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