Until now, Emmanuel Macron had big plans for the future. But the pandemic has left him wondering how to save France and the world economy from a depression comparable to the crash of 1929. In an exclusive interview, he talks about the 'unthinkable': ft.com/content/3ea8d7…
Unlike other world leaders who are trying to return their countries to where they were before the pandemic, Macron says he sees the crisis as an existential event that will change the nature of globalisation and the structure of international capitalism ft.com/content/3ea8d7… 
Asked if the pandemic highlighted the advantages of authoritarian countries, the French president said we can't compare western democracies to China: 'There are clearly things that have happened that we don’t know about.' ft.com/content/3ea8d7…
Emmanuel Macron is especially concerned about the EU and the euro, saying that both the bloc and the single currency will be threatened if richer members do not show more solidarity with the pandemic-stricken nations of southern Europe ft.com/content/3ea8d7…
Covid-19 might offer an opportunity to make the case that Macron is trying to humanise capitalism. That includes, in his view, putting an end to a 'hyper-financialised' world and greater efforts to save the planet from global warming ft.com/content/3ea8d7…
Macron has admitted that it is too early to tell where this global crisis will lead, but he says he has deep convictions about liberty and democracy — and that in the end the qualities that are most needed in these times are humility and determination ft.com/content/3ea8d7…
