Macron preaches European democracy as ‘our best chance’
An evangelist for a more integrated and reformed EU, French president Emmanuel Macronremains a polarising figure at home
Manfred Weber could not have been more gushing. “This house has waited a long time for a French president like you,” the European People’s Party (EPP) leader told Emmanuel Macron last Tuesday. Nearly a year into his term, the young French president had come to the occasional seat of the European Parliament to deliver a speech on the future of the EU.
The 40-year-old centrist whose election upset France’s political establishment last year ...
