The French president has a vision for a more integrated Europe – and Brexit feeds right into that.
- Senior Lecturer in French and Politics, Northumbria University, Newcastle
He is a strident europhile, but that doesn’t mean France’s new leader is out to punish the UK for Brexit.
With just 6% of the vote, the French socialist party of outgoing president François Hollande came a distant fifth in the French election.
In France, a president has no real power without a parliamentary majority. And Macron doesn’t even have a party.
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