Mr Macron has emerged from his domestic troubles, publishing a manifesto for a European 'renaissance'
three months, the formerly globe-trotting French president has scarcely left the country. Instead he has cleared his diary to criss-cross France, staging nearly a dozen town-hall meetings in a “great national debate” intended to counter theprotests. That movement, which began last November, is ebbing, but it has yet to be pacified.
Mr Macron’s pro-Europeanism is a long-standing passion. But doubling down on Europe is a counter-intuitive response to his difficulties at home, where thedenounce remote, technocratic elites. Grand schemes for Europe—and Mr Macron has no end of new agencies to propose—are hardly foremost among French protesters’ concerns. Sure enough, the National Rally , the populist party led by Marine Le Pen, promptly denounced Mr Macron’s “post-national vision”.
Mr Macron’s underlying message is about preserving “European civilisation”. This may sound like an effort to absorb populist themes he once abjured. Last year he warned of the “leprosy” of nationalism, and declared that if populists saw him as their main opponent “they are right”. But this time, says an aide, he is trying to bring together those worried about nationalism, whichever European country they happen to be in.
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