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Emmanuel Macron is now President of the Council of the European Union for the coming months. A position he wanted to establish from the start of his speech, Wednesday, January 19. Julien Gasparutto, live from Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), deciphers this speech, which has taken on a whole new dimension, eighty-one days before the presidential election.
Emmanuel Macron delivered his first speech to the European Parliament on Wednesday January 19. “Like expected, the President of the Republic did not make a river speech, about thirty minutes to detail the priorities already known to France for the next six months”, reports Julien Gasparutto, live from Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) for France 2. “The expected moment in Strasbourg, according to the journalist, it is the debate with the Euro-MPs, which will last two and a half hours.
A particular context, since three months before the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron “finds in the European arena, a candidate who is already well declared, the Euro-deputy Yannick Jadot”. Manon Aubry should also “challenging the Head of State on the instrumentalization of this European presidency during the French electoral campaign”, according to the special correspondent of France 2. Jean-Luc Mélenchon made the trip when he was not invited. “In short, you see, the presidential campaign is really inviting itself to the European Parliament”, concludes Julien Gasparutto.