"Macron in the United States: transatlantic misunderstanding"

Emmanuel Macron has it in his blood.

Rubbing shoulders with world leaders, speaking to them as an equal, seeking to convince them without fear of resisting them, this has come naturally to him since his first steps on the international scene.

This young 44-year-old president is inhabited by the acute awareness of representing a country that counts, if not only by its economic and military power, in any case by its history and its influence.

Added to this is the immense self-confidence of the Head of State, which pushes him to put himself forward, to take initiatives, to intercede in order to always be at the forefront of crises and major planetary issues.

A trait that feeds as much admiration as annoyance among the French.

We saw him at work with Donald Trump, in a kind of manly and deceptively friendly mano a mano that did not prevent the former American president from declaring a trade war on Europe.

We saw it with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, where diplomatic missions and familiarity…

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