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THE LEADER OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
ACCORDING TO EMMANUEL MACRON |
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| It is on the eve of celebrating the centenary of the end of the First World War in the north and east of France for a week from Sunday before a grand ceremony commemorating the armistice of November 11, 1918 to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris that Emmanuel Macron warns against a risk of resemblance with the thirties. Emmanuel Macron. The president says he is "struck", in an interview with the daily Ouest-France, by the similarity between the current situation in Europe and that of the 1930s, and calls for "being lucid" and "resisting" .
"In a Europe that is divided by fears, the nationalist withdrawal, the consequences of the economic crisis, one sees almost methodically all the things that have punctuated the life of Europe after the First World War to the crisis of 1929, " says Emmanuel Macron. Today, "Europe faces a risk: to be dismembered by nationalist leprosy and to be jostled by external powers. And therefore to lose his sovereignty. That is to say, to have its security, which depends on the American choices and its changes, to have a China increasingly present on essential infrastructures, a Russia that is sometimes tempted by manipulation, great interests financial markets and markets that sometimes exceed the position that states can take, " concludes the head of state. If the tenant of the Elysee wants to understand the lessons of history by waving the red rag, should we not also remember that the analogy has its limits. Indeed if the rise of populism in Europe is palpable, if the Hungary of Viktor Orban and Italy of Salvini skid to the extreme right, Europe was built to no longer relive wars between European countries, nationalisms Europeans are in no way comparable to Nazism or fascism. In the 1930s, they were constituted states, powers that do not recognize the rules of the international game and want war. This is the case of Nazi Germany or fascist Italy. Moreover, the countries that are rocking today in the extreme right have no expansionist aim as was the case ... Fundamental differences, if any. But are not we also in the electoral campaign for the Europeans? |
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"I am struck by the similarity between the moment we live and that of the inter-war period," said the head of state in remarks on the sidelines of a visit to an exhibition dedicated to Georges Clemenceau , head of the French government in the early twentieth century.