Macron Says Europe Is Giving Way to Nationalism Again
Published Oct 16, 2018 03:08PM ET
Updated Oct 16, 2018 03:30PM ET
Macron Says Europe Is Giving Way to Nationalism Again
(Bloomberg) -- President Emmanuel Macron said France and Europe must carefully work to counter the “troubled times” as the continent is facing the threat of a new wave of extremes and pledged is government will participate to the effort.
“The world is fracturing, new disorders are appearing and Europe is tipping almost everywhere toward extremes and again is giving way to nationalism,” the 40-year-old leader said in a declaration on television Tuesday, his second only since he took office in May 2017. “Those who do not see what is going on around us are sleepwalking. Not me.”
France’s leader said his new government, appointed Tuesday, will continue to reform the country and make it an “educated nation” as he seeks to avert the rise of extremism at home. Macron defeated anti-Europe and anti-immigration political leader Marine Le Pen 16 months ago. Far-right groups are on the rise in Germany, have won political victories in Italy and Austria, and are in power in Hungary and Poland.
Macron is planning a 10-day-long commemoration of World War I at a dozen different sites across France next month as part of his personal campaign to stress the danger posed by the rise of extremism. Ahead of the May 2019 European elections, Macron has called for the “regrouping” of European political entities around common values, to create a pan-European, trans-party political group of “progressive” politics against nationalists.
“We will be judged on our lucidity and our courage,” Macron said adding that “innocent times are over.”
After making only limited changes to his government, Macron said “today there is no change of direction nor change of strategy. There is a will to take action.” The president announced his long-anticipated cabinet overhaul prompted by the Oct. 2 resignation of his interior minister and postponed numerous times. The new team will carry on with the reform of the pensions system as Macron said he wished for the new one to be “more equal.”
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