EU: Macron details the three axes of the French presidency

"Revival, power, belonging": Emmanuel Macron thus described the three axes of the French presidency of the EU, during a debate for the 25th anniversary of the Jacques Delors Institute, before his press conference on this subject on Thursday . After citing "the need for recovery in response to the crisis", the Head of State defended at length "the need to assume this Europe and to call it always ours", stressing that "this feeling of belonging is 'is withered' in France as in other EU countries. "No one is unaware of the public debate in our country at the moment," he continued to the members of the institute gathered at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, "when things get difficult, we say it's is Europe's fault". As for the need for "power", he called for consolidating "a Europe which will be able to make its own choices, military, technological, cultural, of values". "We have provincial debates, where the real issues are knowing what we want to become compared to the Chinese model, the American model". Vaccination of Europeans is the best example of Europe's efficiency, he insisted.

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