While his agenda is jostled by the war in Ukraine and that his candidacy is waiting, the head of state has held support to the agricultural world, already affected by the crisis.
Emmanuel Macron dreamed in an apostle of long time. At the time of leaving a second term, the tenant of the Elysée intended to give France the feeling of a “mastery of his destiny”, projecting the country into a promising future makes investments and progress. You had to see the future at ten years and even beyond without fear or anxiety. The ace ! The arrival of Russian tanks in Ukraine obliges the head of state to reconnect with the constraints of immediacy. And it is in a hurried man, jostled by a moving agenda and the dramatic news of a “war in Europe”, according to his words, that the President of the Republic went on Saturday, February 26, at the international fair of Agriculture at the Parc des Expositions of the Porte de Versailles, in Paris.
Far from the fourteen hours spent in 2019 to wander in the middle of Saler cows or Savoie cheeses, the head of state will have made an express visit of just two hours to talk to a worried agricultural world by the current geopolitical tensions. Before a defense council in the afternoon and a call to his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the early morning, the president will nevertheless have devoted a part of his schedule to go to the “biggest farm of France “, yielding to the political ritual.
The President of the Republic wanted to thank the farmers at the exhibition supposed to seal “reunion” after two years of pandemic. “You held,” he greeted, reminiscent of the content of the messages previously disclosed to caregivers, in “first line” of this sanitary crisis. “You’ve held to feed the French nation, to continue exporting too,” he insisted.
“Resilience Plan”
But the COVID-19 page is not yet closed as opens a new forehead still disturbing, linked to the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Facing the agricultural world, but also to the rest of the country, the head of state has not sought to reassure or minimize the scope of events. “The war returns to Europe and we see each other today in an unprecedented, serious and historical context,” he said, before delivering his “conviction”: “This crisis will last”.
A serious tone reflecting “the return of tragic” still predicted by the head of state in a Europe used to peace. One way, too, to emphasize the role of the President of the Republic. In August 2017, in an interview at the point, Emmanuel Macron believed that “for too long, we resigned ourselves to a democratic life without salt. We are paying the price of this collective stupidity that consists of believing at the end of The story, when it comes back to us in the face. “To face it,” he said, “We have to reconnect with the political heroism of the Republican world, find the meaning of the historical narrative”.
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