🧵 Emmanuel Macron just laid bare his objective with his offensive on the #IRA in recent interviews. He wants a new 🇪🇺 European stimulus package.
Macron: “We can’t ask the United States of America to solve our problems.” 1/3
Macron: “We can’t ask the United States of America to solve our problems.” 1/3
https://twitter.com/spignal/status/1599398530007060481
Something he’s been pushing since *checks notes* early March 2022. ⤵️
Didn’t work the first time? In pure Macron fashion, he’ll keep pushing. 2/
Didn’t work the first time? In pure Macron fashion, he’ll keep pushing. 2/
https://twitter.com/mij_europe/status/1501553684592971787?s=46&t=sloBrexic6jCosSRB8EueA
Why? Because it’s an opportunity for him to “synchronize” both his foreign (European sovereignty) and domestic agenda.
Domestically, he wants to counterbalance unpopular social benefits cuts and pension reform with growth and investment in strategic areas. 3/3
Domestically, he wants to counterbalance unpopular social benefits cuts and pension reform with growth and investment in strategic areas. 3/3
“In fact, there are voices in the EU urging it down a similar path. In an essay in September, Thierry Breton, the E.U.’s internal market commissioner, wrote of the “determination and audacity” of the Biden initiatives by way of encouraging Europe to pursue comparable methods.” 🔽
https://twitter.com/EJDionne/status/1599403566543912960
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