Failed on his economic policy, François Mitterrand had found with the European construction a loophole to try to divert the attention of the French.
No one can say, however, that this tactic explained his re-election in 1988 or his exceptional longevity at the Élysée.
But the example may have inspired Emmanuel Macron, president for six months of the Council of the European Union.
His speech, this Wednesday, in Strasbourg, before the European Parliament, allowed him to lay down some thematic milestones for his future electoral campaign in France.
Because a candidate for his succession, he will be soon.
No one doubts it.
And one of his weapons, he thinks, to mark his difference with his opponents of tomorrow, is to appear as a convinced European.
It is a commitment that the Head of State has always defended.
However, it carries some risks.
The first of them is due to the lack of interest aroused by European affairs, when it is not much more…
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