stepped from his presidential plane onto the red carpet at the airport in Shanghai on November 4th, two flags were fluttering in the warm air: one Chinese, the other the French. This was only to be expected for a visiting French president, whom President Xi Jinping treated to two banquets and a private dinner, in two different cities. Yet the absence of a European Union flag was a small visual reminder of the scale of the diplomatic challenge Mr Macron has set himself.
“But we find ourselves for the first time with an American president who doesn’t share our idea of the European project,” Mr Macron notes, and whose attitude to the risk of jihadist prisoners on the loose in Syria is that they will “be escaping to Europe”.
But can he? French Fifth-Republic presidents are fond of laying out sweeping visions of the world that appeal to the country’s grandeur. Over the years, when French leaders have called for a, this has often sounded suspiciously like code for French hegemonic ambitions. Such efforts in the past have been dismissed in London or Washington as quaint, or dangerously undermining of, or both.
China is a good test of whether Mr Macron can get Europe to speak as one voice, and whether Europe wants that voice to be Mr Macron’s. He has been outspoken about “China’s real diplomatic genius for playing on our divisions and weakening us”. He says he wants fellow Europeans to be less naive; he has argued it was “stupid” to sell essential infrastructure in southern Europe to the Chinese.
Macron has lost the plot. His (and Germany's) kow-towing to Russia is proof that he would sell out Eastern Europe in a split second if it benefits him economically / politically. Good luck pushing EU reform with no support from Eastern Europe.
Yes isn't federalism just the best, not
Then it would be an ingenious & propicious time for Mr Macron looking for business development with Latinoamerican countries as well.
How true! 'Europe faces an almost-existential moment, he argues, as the world shifts from a global order based on rules to one determined by muscular power politics' - and that's exactly what I said 3 years ago. Hello, does anybody listen?
Excellent points! It's time for a wake-up call! Even the sweet taste of Bordeaux wines will soon be replaced by the MASSIVE wine-making industry being developed in China. My advice: stop using the defeatist term of 'European project', you're not in school
you got that right...my neighbour traded in his F150 pickup for a Hyundai plug in...
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These 'unthinkable' things were foretold by Western Conservatives over and over. Globalists are in complete denial of the disaster they created.
You do not know anything about the world. I do not know how you were elected. I am so sorry for french people. Same for the USA people too... same for Turkish people too. Is there anyone who deserves to be president in the world?
After Napoleon, France only gains something with England or the US next door. She is now the deputy owner of Europe, with Germany the general owner. France is expensive, subject to immigration, arrogant and still thinks it has the power it had in Enlightenment.
Unfortunately,no one takes him serious.
Trump’s “Make America great again “ .
And what have you done in that 5 years Macron? Shovelled the rhetoric of shyte!
you mean Macron turning his thug police jackboots on his own citizens? never report about that do you?
If Russia and China can manage to cooperate while the U.S continues to turn its back on our European friends, Europe will be in trouble. The western liberal democracies are eating themselves alive while China and Russia continue to oppress their people and play the long game.
QE policies? Heated arguments in EU. So far US favours savers, but ECB wants jobs now. Macron complains that needs of EU mean it should stop sending its huge savings to sustain US. Conflict of natl governance - favour employment or investors in failing system of global finance?
France's president just announced German vision of Europe. The final is known. War.
mmm... looks better than me in pictures. Positively speaking.
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.theeconomist EU countries without national borders are doomed to fail. Is that so difficult to understand ?
Your 10-th time you tweet same article in last 2 days. Nobody believes anymore Macron’s bullshit. First of all France have to pay debt to NATO than he can speak.
All of the above are inextricably linked on a permanent basis. Anybody suggesting otherwise lacks thorough knowledge of history and geopolitics. It is absolutely essential to preserve or fashion, should the need arise, a brand mechanism to maintain the structure.
The young and influential child of the President emmanuelmacron Rothschild. First, Nato is dead . Then he said the US had sold out the EU. With those remarks, Macron took the first steps to get EU out of the Atlantic. The question to ask is who drove Macron onto the field?
Let it all burn in a heap of refugees and super high fuel taxes whilst we sit back and enjoy old women, he says
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Here is the truth. La Verite. 37 years of lies.
He is actually brilliant and is doing the best he can in a flawed system. Putin is trying to destroy him at every turn. Macron is fighting the good fight.
Politicians are lost in their own ignorance! When you do not see the priorities, God cannot help you to stimulate your mind!
And he’s most obviously right. The ONLY European leader asking the right questions and correctly identifying the strategic challenges. Those criticising his position should articulate an alternative vision, if they are able to do it...
You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful-I just start kissing them.
He doesn't help
EmmanuelMacron the blood of AFRICANS will take FRANCE to its grave. Colonialpack must be broken by thunder and by fire and brimstones from above. What FRANCE has done in AFRICA will soon catch up with it. He should be telling the truth of FRANCAFRIQUE
especially, when Eastern Europe collapsed.
Never had one, except feeding a bottom feeder ruling class (like Macron and Merkel) to destroy democracy, open borders and to promote globalism against European citizens.
Screw EmmanuelMacron
France's promising leader turned into an ordinary prostitute on Kremlin money.
Bit like how Manu lost his political purpose since he’s been repeatedly bitchslapped by people in hi-vis!
Europe's sovereignty and strategy should keep them off Africa like rodents to farms.
“Whoever has visions should go to the doctor”,Helmut Schmidt, Late German Chancellor.
as it must to be in free world
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I am deeply sorry for Macron. As a European I am ashamed of the ongoing blocking of the German government in many important decisions, especially on the FutureofEurope and the EU, respectively.
How much will they pay to open the market? How many French people will then be left without work? He should learn something from Tramp; Let's make France great again!
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He has a vision of a more 'french' and 'russian' EUrope
Note to realDonaldTrump and TulsiGabbard : retreating from the world is a decline move. You step back, others step in, and pretty soon the US will be influenced against its will by the new superpowers
According to him… he has lost his purpose since he entered politics.
I am afraid Macron is bribed by Chinese Communist Party and betraying Europe and $US. US$15 billion trade deal with China? Looks like China steal US$14 billion market from France anf make French jobless France will be under Crypto-Communist. CIA
Its purpose was to smother democracy and homogenise Europe. No big fail there brah.
Damn if it's not looking as though Putin will have the last laugh.
For once, Macron isn't wrong. Except that the EU is incapable of meaningful reform. . .
Don't give up yet !!!! Pull of trump. We need to get back on our watch America keep your children free
Creí que se refería a su propio país, lo que son ahora los “presidentes “ de países que pertenecen a la UE son solo administradores sujetos a ella.
Hot off the press ICDS_Tallinn report looks into the buzzword European Stategic Autonomy & how European states could go forward filling it with life:
It never ceases to amaze me why do ppl (below) comment on an article they didn’t even bother to read.
Ask him about Russia.
Sovereign Europe, but it is sovereign, and much more?
If Sarkozy was nicknamed Napoleon, how Macron could be called? He seems wanting to dissolve NATO and the western alliance, becoming the EU a separated block under France's leadership the than only EU country with nukes after BREXIT.
IvoCerckel FREXIT IS THE ONE AND ONLY 'VISION' ...!
Does the hope of Europe depend on Macron who loves to deal with the terrorists? How awful!
Everything is born, grown and die.
Wow, such a *novel* 'vision'.
France's president should focus on his country.. Rather than having 'visions'.
Sovereign for who ?
Incoming whining Brexiteers.
lol good one 😂
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