* Normalian, associate professor and doctor in history, Christophe de Voogd is president of the scientific and evaluation council of the Foundation for political innovation.
The thing should now be clear: the “double sovereignty” – national and European – that the Macronian discourse offers us, comes up against all the evidence: that of logic, which reminds us that sovereignty can only be unique, under penalty of contradiction
in terminis
, since sovereignty is by definition the power from which all others come;
that of the history of political ideas which teaches us that, since at least the Middle Ages (without even going back to the Roman
auctoritas
), “
the king is emperor in his kingdom
”;
that of history itself, who knows that “double sovereignty” has always been synonymous with civil or foreign war: pope against emperor, pope against king, and king against emperor…
But another thing must also be remembered: the “frexiteur” discourse, including in its new “bruxiteur” version (leaving Brussels, if we understand correctly, but for where?), comes up against obstacles that are at least as insurmountable : firstly that of French opinion which, in the majority, starting with our farmers, does not want to abandon the achievements of the Union.
And even less so the euro, which our compatriots know is the ultimate guarantee of our social model, so costly and so deficit.
Also read: “As long as we do not tackle the debt, sovereignty will remain wishful thinking”
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