Emmanuel Macron is a friend not a foe – and Liz Truss is self-inflicting damage on the Western alliance
If France is a potential enemy, who the heck does Truss think are our friends?
ByEmmanuel Macron
At the age of 39, in 2017, Emmanuel Macron became the youngest president of the French Fifth Republic. He had only founded his centrist political party, En Marche, in April 2016. In April 2022 he won a second term as president of the EU’s second-largest economy, which no French president had achieved in 20 years. He studied at the prestigious Henri IV high school in Paris, and he studied philosophy and later attended the École Nationale d’Administration. Find our latest news and comment here.
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