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Anxious to pose as a good student of Europe, Emmanuel Macron was however heckled by his opponents on the French political scene, referring the debates to those of the presidential election.
As he begins his six months as President of the European Union, Emmanuel Macron wanted to show, Wednesday, January 19, before the European Parliament, that he was the good student of Europe. But behind this battle hovers that of the presidential election. In Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), the president confronted his French adversaries: National Rally MEP Jordan Bardella notably accused him of having made Europe “washington’s backyard” and “Beijing’s prey“.
In another register, the MEP and environmental candidate for the presidential election, Yannick Jadot, criticized him for being “climate inaction president“Faced with these Franco-French passes of arms, the President of Parliament had to recall that it was “not a national debate” and called for “respect the institution“. Not enough to prevent Manon Aubry, of La France Insoumise, from qualifying Emmanuel Macron as “president of contempt“, nor the Republican François-Xavier Bellamy to accuse him of having “fracture“France and Europe.