“We are living the end of abundance”. After three weeks of vacation, the Head of State set the course for the start of the back-to-school Council of Ministers, in an exceptionally live speech. Emmanuel Macron thus underlined, on Wednesday August 24the seriousness of the challenges of the new school year by calling on the government and the majority to “the unit” in the face of the effects of the climate crisis and “the end of abundance“.
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“The moment we live in may seem to be structured by a series of serious crises (…) and it could be that some see our destiny as being perpetually to manage crises or emergencies. I believe, for my part, that what we are going through is more of the order of a major shift or a major upheaval“, he declared in front of the Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne and the ministers.
Emmanuel Macron speaks at the Council of Ministers: “What we are experiencing is of the order of a great seesaw (…) that of the end of abundance”
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Quickly, the political class was moved by such remarks, when certain Internet users went wild, posting photos of Emmanuel Macron in a jet-sk or of his wife, luxury bag on her arm. With such an output, theIs the head of state promising the French people blood and tears? “No way“, demines his entourage to franceinfo.
“The end of abundance is that of raw materialsinsists an adviser, hence the need to adapt, to evolve”. According to the entourage of the President of the Republic, the purpose of this speech was to hold a speech of lucidity, but without displaying more pessimism today than in Emmanuel Macron’s speech in Bormes-les-Mimosas, Friday August 19, when he mentioned the “price of freedom“. A speech which therefore does not mark the break with the promise of optimism, fundamental in the speech of Emmanuel Macron since his first election in 2017, assures the Elysée.
Besides, thehe little music on the supposed pessimism of the President of the Republic, the Elysée feels it rising for several days. Yet no change of foot: “Looking at the situation as it is is the only way forward“, we slip. And Emmanuel Macron is keen on this communication strategy. He says it himself: we must start by naming things, with clarity, without catastrophism. “Optimism remains his trademark.assures one of his closest advisers, evoking the phrase “We’ll get there together“, heard several times in presidential speeches.
Moreover, by wanting to prepare the minds “in time to come“, to use an expression dear to the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron rejects the idea that his destiny would be to perpetually manage crises or emergencies. He claims both a duty of lucidity and the fact that his action follows It is in this spirit that a long column, of 10 sheets, was published Wednesday evening on the site of the magazine Challenges to remind you of its flight plan for the next 5 years. He comments on a Harris Interactive survey on the state of mind of the French. “Our people face the challenges of the century with their eyes wide open, aware of the difficulties and the dangers, but confident in their ability to overcome them, sure of their strength,” he writes, highlighting that “This concern is a form of lucidity, fruitful anxiety which must arouse the action of all in the respect of each one.And to conclude:I know we will get there“….
Moreover, at the end of the Council of Ministers, the government spokesman, Olivier Véran, did as several of his colleagues before him in recent days: he pleaded that France resist better than its neighbors, because measures have been taken to better protect the French. And he announced that the State is preparing a plan for the start of the school year to secure energy supplies.