Emmanuel Macron, an incredible European? When the president places France's pursuits in Brussels | EUROtoday

” HASgir in European. » There is no more hackneyed expression in the mouths of the Macronists and the first of them, Emmanuel Macron himself. He uses the expression in almost all his interventions on Europe, in Brussels or elsewhere. The reality is very different: like other nations, France first defends its interests or certain French interests.

First illustration: the text on violence against women. It was adopted in a trilogue between the European Parliament and the Member States on Tuesday February 6, to the dismay of many European parliamentarians. Indeed, Emmanuel Macron and his Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, managed to eliminate the European definition of rape that the Commission had seen fit to include.