This fine essay by @BrunoTertrais is a dense and thought-provoking analysis of @EmmanuelMacron foreign policy. Some of his criticism is justified 1/6
https://twitter.com/brunotertrais/status/1351643547309658122
However, I personally don’t buy the idea that the great key to the Macronist world view (if such a thing exists) is his one-time mentor, the Eurosceptic former Socialist minister, Jean-Pierre Chevènement 2/6
Chevènement was and is a fierce French nationalist. Macron’s view of “sovereignty” may be fluid at times but it is mostly defined in a European context: the need for a European strategic sovereignty – economic, political & military. I think this would be repugnant to Chevènement
Tertrais says Macron hesitates between French and European sovereignty. “This,” he says interestingly “may be the price of trying to be both De Gaulle, who prized French sovereign autonomy above all, and Mitterrand, who saw the opportunities offered by a more integrated Europe.”
OK but we have moved on 25 years since Mitterrand and nearly 50 years since De Gaulle. Macron is applying the S-word to a different world - what he sees at a dual threat to European independence, prosperity and identity from China and the US 5/6
Macron believes (rightly or wrongly) that the only effective sovereignty in that context must at least part be European. That is far from Chevènementiste. 6/6
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