Emmanuel Macron continues his media offensive on Europe. The President of the Republic gave an interview to The Economist, published this Thursday, May 2, in which he returns to the diagnosis and the proposals that he delivered in his speech at the Sorbonne last week. The French head of state directly attacks the nationalists and the National Rally. Objective: to embody the camp of responsibility in the European campaign of June 9.
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Emmanuel Macron does not want to accept the idea of a defeat against the RN. “ I’m fighting, we have to fight », responds in his interview the head of state to the question of whether theEuropean Union could survive the takeover in France by the nationalists, because now this question arises.
While the National Rally, which is well ahead in the polls, wants to make the European elections a springboard towards 2027, the president shows that he does not see it that way: “ Polls do not make politics, he said. It’s your ability to move things that makes it happen. »
In other words, he wants to believe in the power of will. And to provoke a start, he multiplies his speeches and raises the stakes of the June 9 election. For him, a victory for the National Rally would amount to “ entrust the bank to robbers “, Has ” hidden Brexiteers “.
Faced with nationalists, Emmanuel Macron claims to be “patriotic”, “ to love your country and Europe “, because ” both complement each other “. To not cede the field of the nation to its adversaries, to show that the sovereignty of France also passes through Europe, and to offer those who doubt another option than voting for the National Rally.
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