Faced with rising nationalism and the crisis of liberal globalisation "a humanist and progressive path exists" said Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Monday 27 August at the annual conference of French ambassadors.
Prepared for a "long and tough" European battle ahead of the May 2019 European elections, the French president has not dropped any of his pro-European convictions that he set out at the end of September last year at Sorbonne University (see EUROPE 11870), and he is planning to step...