the head of state “plays on the European flag effect”, analyzes Nathalie Saint-Cricq

Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech on the European Union on Thursday April 25 at the Sorbonne (Paris) in which he did not hesitate to paint a fairly dark and even frightening picture of what Europe risks. “There was little grandiloquence”notes Nathalie Saint-Cricq, political columnist for France Télévisions, on the set of 20 Heures, adding however that “It’s more his style.”

A pool of voices “among those disappointed with macronism”

For Nathalie Saint-Cricq, the President of the Republic “also plays, in a more domestic political way, on the European flag effect”. “The flag effect is when we follow the leader because we are afraid”, she explains. The political columnist adds that Emmanuel Macron “knows full well that his reservoir, his source of votes for the Europeans, is among those disappointed with Macronism, those who voted for him and who, for the moment, intend to stay at home. So, he tends to dramatize in such a way that they move.”