have the lofty ambitions of the French presidency been followed by effects?

Guest of 11 p.m., Patrick Martin-Genier, professor at Sciences Po and specialist in European issues, says that he had attended Emmanuel Macron’s press conference in December, which launched the French presidency of the European Union. “I said to myself ‘God, he wants to do a lot of things, are we going to get there in six months?’ And to be very objective, he got great results“, he estimated, even if the war in Ukraine overshadowed the other subjects.

On the climate issue, the “climate package” was adopted and contains a carbon border adjustment mechanism. “They say that the environment will be expensive for households, because we will have to get used to this clean energy. Europe has decided to create a social fund for the climate, which will go until 2032, endowed with 59 billion euros“, he continued, considering moreover that France was going “continue to play a very important role“after this presidency.