Brussels in expectation after Emmanuel Macron’s setback

What will be the room for maneuver of Emmanuel Macron, deprived of an absolute majority after the legislative elections? “It is possible that some European leaders will directly question Emmanuel Macron on this subject.“, confirms journalist Julien Gasparutto from Brussels. Behind the scenes of the European institutions, everyone is asking the same question as in France: has the country become ungovernable?

“Some, you know, fell off their chairs a bit, because elsewhere […]we generally start by electing deputies, then forming a coalition and finally appointing a head of government“, explains the journalist. Many thought that once past the obstacle of the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron had definitively won. The left and the far right, for their part, are smiling. But the centrist family fears that the President’s action is hindered.