The Eiffel Tower takes on a captivating blue dotted with stars every evening in January. A perfect illustration of the Europe of which France dreams. Visible, concrete as iron, recognizable urbi et orbi. A Europe in which European citizens identify and which the world respects. The Eiffel Tower in blue also speaks to us, without … Read more
► What does Emmanuel Macron propose, and why? Coming to present to MEPs France’s priorities for the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, Emmanuel Macron proposed, on Wednesday 19 January, to ” consolidate “ the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. “I hope that we can update this charter, in particular to be more … Read more
Half an hour of speaking, then more than two and a half hours of an uncompromising debate. Accustomed to speeches-rivers to expose his vision of Europe, Emmanuel Macron this time had to make it a little shorter, in the hemicycle of the European Parliament meeting in plenary in Strasbourg. → READ. In the European Parliament, … Read more
It was undoubtedly the last solemn address of his five-year term. Emmanuel Macron delivered, on Wednesday January 19, an expected speech to MEPs in the Strasbourg Parliament, on the occasion of the start of the French presidency of the Council of the European Union (PFUE). →ANALYSIS. EU Presidency: Emmanuel Macron in the arena of MEPs … Read more
The French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (PFUE) is (really) on its way. Since January 1, France has held the reins of this institution which brings together the 27 Member States, but it is at the Élysée, this Friday, January 7, that the real kickoff of these six months was given. → … Read more
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
The exercise returns less and less quickly, with the various enlargements. From the entry into force of the Treaty of Rome, on 1is January 1958, it was agreed that each Member State would chair the meetings of the Council of Ministers in turn, every six months, in alphabetical order of the official names of the … Read more
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