The shadow of the presidential election hangs over Strasbourg.
In the usually so hushed hemicycle of the European Parliament, where political adversaries strive to drown their differences in consensus, where debates are whispered quietly in the corridors and offices, where Negotiations are concluded by polite exchanges on the podium, the opponents of the President of the Republic tumbled in noise and fury to settle his account.
Emmanuel Macron had still looked for it a little.
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For months, the Head of State has made no secret of his desire to rely on the French presidency of the European Union to reactivate the cleavage between pro-Europeans and Eurosceptics in the run-up to the presidential election.
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Also, when he comes to the podium to deliver his inaugural speech and his major European orientations for the next six months, everyone is waiting for him at the turn in the hemicycle.
The environmental candidate Yannick…
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