Emmanuel Macron presents his wishes to the French for 2025 at 7 p.m. UT (8 p.m. French time) in the traditional televised New Year’s Eve address, in the hope of turning the page on a year marked by its failed dissolution and the loss of a large part of his influence. His eighth wishes since his arrival at the Élysée in 2017.
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During the traditional televised presidential New Year’s Eve greetings, the eighth of their kind for Emmanuel Macron, his entourage had promised a president in ” slightly different role “. “ Previously, he was a president who governed “, giving impetus to the public policies that occupied a significant part of this New Year’s speech. This year it will be ” more in a guarantor role », assured an advisor.
To begin his speech, Emmanuel Macron swept away the great successes of France in 2024, from the Paris Games to the reopening of Notre-Dame, including the Guarantee of the right to resort to abortion enshrined in the Constitution, then listed some difficult moments, evoking the farmers’ crisis and ensuring that we stand “ today alongside the inhabitants of Mayotte “. Before, obviously, mentioning the dissolution of the National Assembly which marked French political life this year, conceding that it “ brought more divisions than solutions “, even if Parliament would now better represent the diversity of France. “ I take all my share “, he added.
Macron calls on the French to be “united, determined, united”
Despite this fractured Assembly, a marker of a disrupted, even disrupted, political life this year, the President of the Republic still called on the French to be “ united, determined, united » in 2025. “Together, this year, we have proven that impossible is not French,” said the Head of State, wishing “ keep the best of what we were “, he pleaded.
In order to find this “ solidarity », Emmanuel Macron expressed the wish, in line with what he has been insisting for several years, to find a France “ attractive “, Who ” work and innovate more ”, continues to create jobs and “ ensures its growth by maintaining its finances », in a form of warning to the government which must present a new version of the budget for the year which opens.
The desire for a stronger France in a less “naive” Europe
All in a stronger Europe, particularly in the areas of trade and agriculture. “ Europeans must put an end to naivety” in matters of trade or agriculture, insisted the President of the Republic, calling for a ” awakening » in the face of “ laws » which are « dictated by others “. “ Say no to commercial laws dictated by others and which we are the only ones to still respect. Say no to everything that makes us depend on others without compensation and without preparing our future “, he said. “ Conversely, we need the European awakening, a scientific, intellectual, technological, industrial awakening, an agricultural, energy and ecological awakening “.
To do this, the head of state suggested that he could resort to a referendum or citizens’ conventions in the coming year. He assured that in 2025 he would ask the French to “ slice ” of the ” determining topics “.
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