During his traditional televised speech, Emmanuel Macron promised, Sunday December 31, a year 2024 “of determination, efficiency and results” made of “civic rearmament” and of “French pride”. The thirteen-minute speech was delivered from the Elysée gardens, in front of the flags of the Olympic nations in preparation for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris.
Highlighting his 2023 results, the Head of State defended in particular the pension reform but also the “immigration” law, passed at the very end of the year, and “assumed” his reforms, including unpopular ones, such as pensions. He also thanked ” Especially “ the head of government and her ministers while rumors circulate of a reshuffle, or even a change, at Matignon and assured that she has not defied her course for seven years: return France “stronger and fairer”For “liberate, protect, unite”.
For 2024, Mr. Macron mentioned upcoming projects on “school, childhood and education (…), [une] Stronger Republic”, For “achieve our ambition of full employment”while giving a political meeting ” in the next weeks “ without giving further details.
The European elections: a “decisive choice”
The President of the Republic also wishes to engage the “civic rearmament”, maintaining that membership in the ” France “ revolves around“a culture, a history, a language, universal values which are learned from a very young age, in each generation”. Also, the Head of State spoke of rearmaments ” economic “, “of the State and our public services”to which the president, who regularly protests against a process of “decivilization” at work, according to him, in our societies.
Internationally, Emmanuel Macron spoke about the war in Ukraine and the war between Hamas and Israel. But, above all, the Head of State spoke of “decisive choice” which will be played out, according to him, during the European elections in June, between “continue Europe or block it”. “We will have to choose a stronger and more sovereign Europe in light of the legacy of Jacques Delors”he said, and choose between “affirm the strength of our liberal democracies or give in to the lies that sow chaos”.
Finally, the President of the Republic promised a “French vintage” during the new year, evoking future deadlines: the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, after the fire which partly destroyed it in 2019, the commemorations of the Landing in Normandy or even the hosting of the Olympic Games and Paralympics in Paris.