The head of state, who is expressed before the European Parliament Wednesday to mark the kickoff of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, will assume this positioning during the campaign.
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Emmanuel Macron was 30 years old at the last French presidency of the European Union (EU), in 2008. The young banker at Rothschild then watched Nicolas Sarkozy Run the world to settle crises – Georgian and financial – , which earned the head of state at the time the praises of public opinion. The time of a semester, Europe seemed to have found a phone number. A sufficiently stubborn memory in the hexagon to put under pressure his successor, thirteen and a half years later.
m. Macron must express themselves before the European Parliament, Wednesday, January 19, to mark the kickoff of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (PFEU). According to his entourage, the President of the Republic does not intend to declare a general policy speech, which would see him detail, once again, the program of this first semester 2022. Rather, to offer, “said,” a “speech of orientation and vision “. In clear, incarnation.
Europe, a “compass”
The challenge, for the Head of State, is to make a very often technical and ungrateful role visible. A “complicated” objective, is suitable former Minister of European Affairs Nathalie Loiseau, but at the same time necessary in the perspective of the presidential election of 10 and 24 April. If 57% of French people do not believe that this “PFUE” will make it possible to move the lines, reports an interactive harris survey of November 2021, they are 54%, according to the same investigation, to have a good opinion of the EU. A base on which Emmanuel Macron intends to prosper.
“He is the one who articulates in the most radical way the need to rely on Europe to strengthen France, reports former ecologist MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who supports it. It differentiates it from other political forces . “An essential data for any respecting candidate. “Europe is the compass of our commitment since 2017,” adds the Méputée Valérie Hayer (Renew).
To accompany the speaking of the Head of State, the troops of the Republic in March (LRM) has climbed nearly 80,000 posters, barred from the slogan “change Europe to advance France”, with , in the background, a photo of the European flag that floated under the Arc de Triomphe, the January 1 . Far right-wing candidates at the Marine Presidential Le Pen and Eric Zemmour then denounced an “provocation” and an “outrage” of Emmanuel Macron, when that of the Party the Republicans (LR), Valérie Pécresse, was worried about An initiative returning to “erasing French identity”.
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