19th century host.my At the Francophonie Summit, Friday, October 4 and Saturday, October 5, Emmanuel Macron found a suitable role for himself. These days dedicated to the defense of the French language allow the President of the Republic, absent from the political scene since the appointment of Michel Barnier’s government, to remember the good memories of the French. On Thursday we saw him walking through the hallways of FrancoTech, the “innovation fair in French”at the Station F startup campus in Paris, taking selfies with exhibitors, taking an interest in the project of the smallest promoter, consoling a Renaissance candidate who had to withdraw between the two rounds of the legislative elections and without blinking when he receives the thromboscope of the Barnier government…
On Friday, in the magnificently renovated castle of Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne), where he inaugurated, in October 2023, the International City of the French Language, his “great cultural work”The Head of State received the eighty-eight members of the International Organization of La Francophonie with great fanfare. 80 kilometers from Paris, far from the city’s rumors about an alleged “blues”Emmanuel Macron exalted the French-speaking world, “space of diplomatic influence that allows us to face the challenges of the century”.
Determined to use everything “spaces of diplomatic influence” presented to him, the Head of State was in Berlin on Wednesday to meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and participate in a forum on the future of Europe at the World Dialogue in Berlin. The day after Michel Barnier’s general policy statement, Emmanuel Macron outlined, for the first time, the way in which he conceives his new role. “For me the first priority is the European scale”He told business leaders who questioned him about his ability to act. Now he wants to dedicate himself “much more energy” to reforms at this continental level. “We have made many reforms”including the very controversial pension issue, he stressed. But now it is acting at the level of the European Union (EU) “That we can unlock a lot of growth and potential”.
Yes Emmanuel Macron “Now that it has intellectual time to invest in European and international issues, France appears weakened in its ability to shape the main directions of the European Union”However, notes European affairs advisor Yves Bertoncini. The Renew group fell from third to fifth place in the European Parliament, European Commissioner Thierry Breton was fired by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and his successor, Stéphane Séjourné, was given a smaller portfolio.
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