Emmanuel Macron has changed his country and Europe — and not in ways that he necessarily intended.
French President Emmanuel Macron looks on during a work session at the Borgo Egnazia resort for the G7 Summit hosted by Italy in Apulia region, on June 13, 2024 in Savelletri. | Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty ImagesMatthew Kaminski is editor-at-large and writes for POLITICO Magazine on American and global affairs. He’s the founding editor of POLITICO Europe, which launched in 2015, and former editor-in-chief of POLITICO from 2019 to 2023.
Macron never set out to remake France in the American image. He is both a throwback to past French leaders in his conception of himself — a distant and godlike “Jupiter” who believes deeply in French exceptionalism — as well as a 21st century political disruptor. The change to the French approach to the world is dramatic too. You hear things from people at the Elysée that would have been unimaginable a generation ago.. So France, which hated the expansion of the EU to eastern Europe, now talks about the block having to take in new members or die. Macron is more hawkish on Russia and supportive of Ukraine than nearly any other NATO leader. On NATO itself, which he once called “brain dead,” he leans in.
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