Posted on 01/14/2022 11:14:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
What would Macron’s second term look like?
Emmanuel Macron, with eagle eyes, is staring at Europe like stout Cortez. Elected president of France almost five years ago aged just 39, he dreams beyond the renewal of his lease on the Élysée Palace in the April election. Now Angela Merkel has left the world stage, Macron’s ambition is to replace her as Europe’s de facto leader and to father a European federation, a United States of Europe, with France and himself at its centre.
On New Year’s Day, France assumed the rotating six-month presidency of the European Council, the supreme institution of the European Union, an organisation some might think besieged by unresolved crises and policy conflicts and perhaps best advised to be modest. Unabashed, Macron served up an amuse-bouche of what his vision might mean for France, for Europe, for Britain and for the world.
He lit up the Eiffel Tower in the EU colours (also the French embassy in London), ordered a gigantic EU flag to be flown at the Arc de Triomphe and went on television to devote a large part of his New Year’s Eve discourse to his fellow citizens to declare 2022 ‘a turning point’ for a Europe ‘more sovereign and more powerful’. The Élysée simultaneously published a grandiose 76-page plan for the French presidency, promising European solutions to the Covid crisis, action on climate change, a common defence policy, reform of the Schengen Agreement and more, including firm dealing with the UK on the Northern Ireland Protocol and fish.
Macron also wants an EU minimum wage, carbon taxes on products imported into Europe and more regulation and taxation of American tech giants like Amazon and Google. (It’s an ongoing embarrassment that the sclerotic EU has yet to produce a tech giant of its own to regulate or tax.)
The notion that any of these can be delivered before 30 June, when France will be succeeded in the presidency by the Czech Republic, is ludicrous, but that’s not the point. The document is, rather, Macron’s manifesto for the ‘European Renaissance’ with which he is obsessed, and more immediately for his own re-election.
Macron’s New Year television address was nothing less than a campaign speech, although the President is still not yet a declared candidate. It seems likely that he will not formally announce his candidacy until the last possible moment, reducing his campaign to a short blitzkrieg so as to maintain the advantages of incumbency, which he can endlessly exploit, flying around the country promising billions.
In La France profonde, the EU is not loved. Neither is Macron. Currently only 25 per cent intend to vote for him in the first round. He apparently believes that doesn’t matter, that he’ll cruise to victory with the support of the media against a divided opposition, and might even be lucky enough in the second round to face Marine Le Pen, who refuses to retire despite her inevitable defeat. Her father failed five times to win the presidency. She’s failed twice already.
Bookies, polls and even Michel Houellebecq, miserabilist of French letters, in his not-cheerful new novel Anéantir (Annihilate), which was being circulated in digital samizdat in advance of its publication this week, are among many predicting Macron will win in April but that France will remain as much in decline at the end of his next five-year term as it is today.
That’s a depressing thought but perhaps not unreasonable. Let’s go with the hypothesis that Macron wins in April, but that he does so with a substantially smaller victory margin than last time. It’s also improbable that he will gain a convincing presidential majority in the National Assembly elections to follow the presidentials. The political movement he invented five years ago, La République en Marche!, is evaporating. So what does he do in his second term?
To govern France, he will be forced into a cohabitation, probably with Républicains, maybe with spots for the likes of Valérie Pécresse, who is the Républicain candidate for the presidency — although there’s not much difference between her and Macron other than that Pécresse speaks Japanese and Russian, which Macron does not. Macron’s former prime minister Édouard Philippe might be lured out of retirement, although he could be biding his time for a presidential run in five years. Macron may even have to team up with a socialist or two, if that’s what it takes to keep the show on the road. (Éric Zemmour, who is running as a rightist independent under the label Reconquête, will not go quietly into the night should he lose. He’ll resume his media career and will still be a thorn in the side of les bien-pensants. But Le Pen will have to go and maybe her niece Marion Maréchal will move to a central stage.)
The French are often ungrateful, disputatious and miserable. They gobble antidepressants and loathe politicians. General de Gaulle considered them ungovernable. So if Macron wins re-election, he will not much miss having to pretend to be nice to them. He will appoint a government and let them get on with it, maybe sacking a prime minister from time to time pour encourager les autres, and spend as much time as possible strutting the stages of Europe. He will be constitutionally unable to run again, but nobody thinks he’s going to fade into obscurity. Macron will certainly be looking for a new job in 2027, aged just 50.
Macron may believe it’s his and France’s destiny to lead a revitalised Europe, but the truth is that the EU is more pitiful and divided than powerful and sovereign. Even if Covid fades away, it has not been paid for. Inflation is accelerating. The Poles and the Greeks worry more about migrants pouring into their countries than the prospect of enhanced EU sovereignty.
And then there is Germany, France’s strategic partner, bedrock of the Union, in its own slough of despond. Macron is now the senior partner in an unsettled relationship. The new German coalition government of neo-liberals, leftists and greens is divided and its policies are illogical. The Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has closed three nuclear power stations and Germany has become dependent on Russian gas to keep the lights on.
Bonaparte, the last Frenchman with such continental ambitions, wanted lucky generals above good ones, but ultimately was brought down by his own hubris. Macron has been lucky so far, but his ambition to reestablish Napoleon’s First Empire, with himself at its head, might be pushing it.
“Emmanuel Macron, with eagle eyes, is staring at Europe like stout Cortez.”
Cortez? Cortez had balls of steel and actually was in the middle of dangerous stuff, and for the time it took to travel where he was fighting, he may as well have been on Mars. An honest to god Conquistador who brought down the Aztec death cult empire.
Macron is a weak man who basically married a mommy figure and doesn’t even have children. “Cortez”, lol indeed.
BTTT
Suspicious first name. AntiChrist -❎- liken.
Silly Ozzies.
Never gonna happen. The EU is the German Empire By Other Means. Franchies may only play second fiddle.
People have been wondering about him
Guess the world will see how he progresses
Ping
“He lit up the Eiffel Tower in the EU colours (also the French embassy in London), ordered a gigantic EU flag to be flown at the Arc de Triomphe and went on television to devote a large part of his New Year’s Eve discourse to his fellow citizens to declare 2022 ‘a turning point’ for a Europe ‘more sovereign and more powerful’.”
Macron just doing obiesance to his liege lords in Berlin and Brussells, like a good little theign. Vassal states fly the flag of their Imperial Overlords on their own soil and publicly acknowledge their power and sovereignty over them.
The article is less than adequate in expressing the full scope of what Macron represents. It has left out his role in the Great Reset which encompasses global financial transformation, climate change and the covid depopulation experiment.
Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF) has sponsored the worldwide Young Global Leaders since 1992 dedicated to achieving what we know today as the Great Reset.
Just some graduates are Macron, Trudeau, Merkel, H. Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Gov. Newsome of Calif., Buttigeig (class of 2019). At the Young Global Leaders website, click on the members link:
https://www.younggloballeaders.org/
There are detailed articles of what the Young Global Leaders represent:
This link is especially informative with additional important links presented within and at an added list at the bottom of the article. All of them are extremely important.
Every govt appointee/elected officials should be vetted as to membership and training via the Young Global Leaders. The MSM is not going to dedicate even soundbite attention to this subject.
The articles and YGL website explain it all and unmask Macron et al.
In addition, be especially attentive as to who ultimately replaces Biden. All three Clinton’s want into politics.
Also, look for Young Global Leaders as Mayors, corporate CEO’s,Governors, legal leaders, state and federal legislators and maybe even military officers.
Look for class of 2020 and 2021 US members of the YGL. One can look up all countries participating too at their website.
Good one! The official one:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N8HmvERoOVc
Lyrics very socialist with a heaping helping of appeal to youth. Although the tune is very, very different, and so are the lyrics, and it wasn’t written until the mid-sixties, I can’t help but think of “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”, which rather creeps me out.
“Bonaparte, the last Frenchman with such continental ambitions, wanted lucky generals above good ones”
Napoleon never said that.
Completely false ‘quote’
Macron could be the antichrist.
Relatively speaking hes a younger man and he comes out of europe, from one of the 10 kingdoms talked about.
“Going to war al;lied with France is like going hunting with an accordian player.”
Macron embodies this fact.
A puppet that is allowed to be a puppet. Taking the guillotine out of moth balls by people with balls will get their attention. Or maybe they will be found to be domestic white supremacist terrorist a label for those who dare to question and not eat their sh##. france Australia and here at home we can see this REAL pandemic THE GREAT RESET
An excellent description of a vapid and evil man capable of doing nothing good.
If recent polls are correct, Macron’s chance of reelection is disappearing. He did not fulfill any promise regarding his economic plan.
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