With his big speech in the run-up to the European elections, France’s president reminds us of what is at stake – and positions himself as a source of ideas.
In the end, he spoke for almost two hours: French President Emmanuel Macron delivered his much-heralded speech on Europe in the auditorium of La Sorbonne University in Paris this afternoon between eleven and 1 p.m. He had to cough a few times and seemed a little strained, as he has already explained it so many times: Europe must strengthen its sovereignty in order to survive in the world – that has been Emmanuel Macron’s central message to France and the international community for years.