In the United States, Macron seeks his safe haven: Liberation

Weakened domestically and worried about the legacy he will leave behind, the president struggles to maintain his stature as a statesman on the international stage. He will be in Washington for four days starting Tuesday evening.

The banners of MPs are no longer on his level. Questioned last week in the wards of the mayors’ living room on the insoumise La France bill on the ban on bullfighting, Emmanuel Macron explains that he has more important dossiers to manage: “I have the feeling that today, if we put things in order, we must try to bring peace back to Europe, we must avoid major imbalances in the world, we must help resist the consequences of food, energy, this situation and we must build the our climate-school-health project. These are our priorities”. En route to a four-day state visit to the United States, where he lands on Tuesday evening, the president has preferred to huff in the international arena since early fall. In addition to the obligatory passages of the UN General Assembly, the European Councils and the G20, there are the initiatives led by the Head of State: the Paris forum on peace in November, the support conference “civil resilience” Ukrainian on 13 December… but don’t tell those close to the President that this frenzy of meetings with the greats of this world is causing him to desert the domestic scene. Ministers perpetuate the myth of an omniscient and hypervigilant head of state,