Rising On The Pop-Chart: Emmanuel Macron

France’s New President Is Already Fighting the Trump Agenda

While the European Union breathes a sign of relief, Macron promises to be crack down on Brexit.

by Isobel Thompson May 8, 2017 8:00 am

Starts off with strains of Beethoven's Ode To Joy at the Louvre Museum

The international impact of a Macron presidency is unquantifiable: it is an unknown entity, subject to the stride he hits as leader, and the methods employed by his weighty opposition. But, nations have their obvious allegiances. The administration of Donald Trump, presumably rooting for Le Pen, released a curt, congratulatory note. Russia, widely implicated in the pre-vote hack attack, have called for the end of the mutual distrust that prevails between the two countries. Leaders across Europe will be largely delighted with the results, especially Angela Merkel, who is preparing to battle the far-right in Germany's upcoming election. For Theresa May, who congratulated Macron on the phone last night, the result is more mosaic. Macron, a vocal supporter of the E.U., supports a “strict approach to Brexit,” and arrived at his victory party last night to the strains of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, the European anthem. . .

The first president of the Fifth Republic to rise from outside the ranks of a party, he is France’s youngest leader since Napoleon Bonaparte.
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