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Source: Foundation Robert Schuman
“It is no coincidence that Emmanuel Macron is received in the United States as leader of Europe. Since his election a year ago, which has avoided a populist catastrophe in France that others have not been able to avoid, he has not ceased to offer the old continent the necessary start it needs. By multiplying the reform proposals, by setting an example in France, by developing an intelligent, firm, open and committed diplomacy, which speaks to all but yields nothing, it has already moved the European chessboard and the debates There are more the same. If it denotes in sanitized and largely dated speeches obviously meeting the traditional conservatisms, it incarnates, by its voluntarism a moving Europe.“stated
"Because, for her, immobilism is no longer an option. The euro must be firmly supported by increased solidarity between its members who, in the event of a crisis, will be constrained by their own interests anyway. Europe's security and defense have become citizens' demands that states must fulfill and not concede to others. The migration issue, like the social dimension, is unavoidable. Europe must think in power and act as such on the international scene, defend and promote its own cultural, political and economic interests. This is what his people expect. It must be acknowledged that the task is not easy for the young French president who, at best, annoys the commentators and, at worst, disturbs the national calculations of his interlocutors. The European Parliament was only able to welcome him, but the politician's gravity has taken over. It's pretty normal internally, it's guilty at the European level.
Looking back, we discover that only true statesmen have been able to take the right measure of the European challenges, being, as we say today, sufficiently "disruptive" to allow real progress. Such were Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet, and many of their successors. With success.
The objectives proposed by the French president are those which can avoid the European Union the renewal of worries due to its shyness. Timoros, quibbling over means and institutions, governments and European political parties take responsibility for chaos. They have so far been faced with an inspiration that should yet remind them of the Founding Fathers and is greeted everywhere, including outside our borders.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Are they trying to provoke anger and excitement from France that she is capable of shaking the entire edifice?
E. Macron played fair, bravely. He wants to transform his country, but also to help transform Europe and has been entrusted with a mandate from his fellow citizens. To prevent it would be a virtual suicide which would give credence to the idea that Europeans fell asleep on their laurels. This quilt of skepticism that echoes his energy seems already bad, but now the debate is launched. There remains the Franco-German couple. Will he be up to it? Echoes from across the Rhine do not seem very positive. Why change when everything is fine? But precisely because it will not last!-------------------------------------------------
How to translate this into German to convince Europe's leading economy of the fragility it shares with its partners? Germany too must recognize that its geostrategic environment is upset. The time is for movement and adaptation. Europeans have little time to show that they understood it. And so much the better if the head of state behind the European project shakes them up a bit. He is in his role, assumes that of his country. It's already a real success. Let others want to do the same rather than oppose it. Then real discussions will be possible and if compromises must be made, they will take place.“ Jean Dominique, Chairman of Foudnation Robert Schuman, stated.
