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François Bayrou and the new Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, in Matignon, in Paris, September 10, 2025.

In Brussels, for the reason that breakthrough of the National Rally (RN) within the European elections of June 2024 and, within the course of, the failed dissolution of Emmanuel Macron, the French political scenario is taken into account worrying. From this standpoint, the appointment, on September 9, of a 3rd Prime Minister in a yr – Sébastien Lecornu – is just not made to reassure. “I can only tell you about my concern about the political situation in France and the concern that our colleagues tell us”admitted the MEP Macronist Valérie Hayer this identical day.

Admittedly, France is just not the one politically unstable member state, the place the arrival of an excessive proper Eurosceptic in energy is now one of many prospects. But France, inside the Union, performs a separate position, as a result of it’s a founding nation, as a result of it’s the second economic system, as a result of it’s the solely nuclear energy and the one Member State to sit down on the UN Security Council.

With a battle at its borders, Donald Trump’s return to the White House and an economic system in full drop within the United States or China, the European Union (EU) has, greater than ever, it must be stable. “Political instability in France is an issue for Europe. Four governments in lower than two years, it is an excessive amount of “judged, on September 9, the MEP resulting from the postfascist party Fratelli of Italia Nicola Procaccini, a close to the president of the Italian council, Giorgia Meloni.

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