European Commissioners start French Presidency in Paris

This first meeting of the year will be a sort of dress rehearsal, before Emmanuel Macron’s grand oral before MEPs on January 19 in Strasbourg. On January 6 and 7, the French president is due to welcome the college of European commissioners to discuss France’s ambitions in this semester of Council presidency. The exercise of … Read more

how Paris can revive its influence in Europe

Thirteen years since that hadn’t happened. France will ensure from 1is January and until June 30, 2022 the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). Emmanuel Macron could have chosen to skip his turn, so as not to telescope this agenda with that of the presidential election. But the one who had … Read more