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Undated: Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric
Macron (born 21 December 1977) is a French politician serving as
President of France since 2017. He previously was
Minister of the Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs from 2014 to 2016.
Macron was born in
Amiens and studied
philosophy
at
Paris Nanterre University, completed a Master's of Public Affairs at
Sciences
Po and graduated from the
École nationale d'administration (ENA) in 2004. He worked as a senior civil
servant at the
Inspectorate General of Finances and later became an
investment banker at
Rothschild & Cie Banque.
Macron was appointed Deputy Secretary General to the President by
François Hollande in May 2012. He was appointed
Minister of Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs in August 2014 under the
Second Valls government, where he pushed through business-friendly reforms.
He resigned in August 2016 to launch a bid in the
2017 presidential election. After being a member of the
Socialist Party from 2006 to 2009, Macron ran in the election under the
banner of a centrist political movement he founded in April 2016,
En Marche!.
He won the election on 7 May 2017 with 66.1% of the vote in the second round. At
age 39, Macron became the youngest President of France in
history and appointed
Édouard Philippe to be
Prime Minister. In the
June 2017 legislative elections, Macron's party, renamed "La
République en marche" (LREM), together with its ally the
Democratic Movement (MoDem), secured a majority in the
National Assembly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron
-- 2017 --
July 13: Trump, escaping domestic troubles,
visits France's Macron
U.S. President Donald Trump,
under fire at home over Russian connections and abroad over climate change and
trade, arrived in Paris on Thursday seeking common ground with France's new
leader Emmanuel Macron.
After a bumpy start to relations, the two men both have incentives to improve
ties — Macron hoping to elevate France's role in global affairs, and Trump,
seemingly isolated among world leaders, needing a friend overseas.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/13/trump-escaping-domestic-troubles-visits-frances-macron.html
September 28:
Macron’s European Defense Doctrine
European governments will need to take a big leap of faith to embrace a defense
doctrine led by France.
https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/73246
-- 2018 --
April 19: Can France Be America's New Bridge
to Europe?
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/france/2018-04-19/can-france-be-americas-new-bridge-europe
April 26: After the hugs and kisses, Macron
rips Trumpism
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/25/politics/emmanuel-macron-donald-trump-congress-politics/index.html
May 18: Trump Drives
Wedge Between Germany and France
Donald Trump's move to withdraw from the nuclear agreement with Iran should have
pulled the European Union together, but Angela Merkel has instead chosen to
appease the U.S. president. Criticism of her stance is mounting in Brussels and
Berlin.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/iran-crisis-trump-drives-wedge-between-germany-and-france-a-1208528.html
June 8: The Trump-Macron Bromance Is Going
Sour
The French leader’s attempt to cozy up to the U.S. president has yielded few
tangible results.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/06/the-trump-macron-bromance-is-going-sour/562355/
November 6: The French president says Europe needs to be able to defend itself better
alone, without depending on the United States
https://news.sky.com/story/emmanuel-macron-calls-for-real-european-army-to-defend-against-russia-and-us-11546376
November 6: The imminent departure from the
bloc of Britain, long opposed to EU military collaboration, has revived
discussion of defense cooperation — as have concerns that President Donald Trump
may be less willing than his predecessors to come to Europe’s defense in the
face of a newly assertive Russia.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-army/after-macron-eu-executive-echoes-eu-army-call-idUSKCN1NB24Q
November 7: French President Emmanuel Macron
Calls for a 'European Army' to Defend Against China, Russia and the U.S.
http://time.com/5446975/emmanuel-macron-european-army-russia-us/
November 9: Donald Trump hits back at
Emmanuel Macron for European army proposal
The US president has said his French counterpart's comment about the need to
create an EU army was "very insulting."
https://www.dw.com/en/donald-trump-hits-back-at-emmanuel-macron-for-european-army-proposal/a-46235899
November 11: Trump spends Veterans Day in
France, honors WWI dead
https://www.stripes.com/news/europe/trump-spends-veterans-day-in-france-honors-wwi-dead-1.556303
November 11: Trump’s Bromance With Macron
Fizzles Spectacularly
A weekend of presidential drama in Paris culminated in the French president’s
warning against an emerging global disorder.
The ceremony was planned long in advance. A chance for French President Emmanuel
Macron to welcome world leaders to mark the centenary of the armistice that
ended the hostilities of World War I. A way to decry nationalism and reinforce
his deep commitment to multilateralism, and to a European Union born out of past
conflicts.
Then President Donald Trump came to town.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/11/trump-macron-bromance-fizzles-spectacularly/575572/
November 13: Trump ramps up Macron spat by
mocking France in world wars
President also boasts of ‘excellent’ US wines and says Parisians started to
learn German before US saved them from occupation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/13/trump-macron-eu-army-german-second-world-war
November 13: Trump’s insults to France
‘unimaginable’ from predecessors, Harvard expert says
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/11/13/harvard-expert-trump-insults-france-unimaginable-modern-history/g0UzNmcVLuFkr2CHJE8fVJ/story.html
November 13: On Tuesday morning, the
President of the United States encouraged Americans to study opinion polls in
France, apparently unaware of a recent survey there showing that 8 of 10 French
citizens consider him to be a dangerous, incompetent racist.
https://theintercept.com/2018/11/13/trump-points-polls-france-80-percent-say-hes-dangerous-incompetent-racist/
November 13:
Merkel backs Macron’s call for creation of
European army
Chancellor’s support comes as Trump again attacks French president’s stance on
defence
https://www.ft.com/content/3f5c6c74-e752-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6ea3
November 13:
US president takes aim at Macron and French wine.
November 14: Macron joins growing list of
U.S. allies to be insulted by Trump
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/14/world/politics-diplomacy-world/macron-joins-growing-list-u-s-allies-insulted-trump/#.W-xHr6UoHTQ
November 14: France's government has fired
back at a flurry of critical tweets by
Donald Trump, suggesting the U.S. president lacked "common decency" by
launching his broadside on a day when
France was mourning victims of the November 2015 terror attacks.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/france-fires-back-trumps-lack-common-decency-59187637
November 25: Trump criticizes French
protests for not focusing on his priorities
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/11/25/trump-criticizes-french-protests-not-focusing-his-priorities/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.831749fbb76e
December 2: French President Holds Security
Meeting On Yellow Vest Protests
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/02/672714809/french-president-holds-security-meeting-on-yellow-vest-protests
December 3: Deadly Paris protest becomes
expression of French discontent, threatens to upend political system
Paramedics declared their support for yellow jackets
It was like something out of a Victor Hugo novel, updated for the 21st century:
Vandals wrote graffiti on convenience stores and iconic national monuments.
Students lit fires in trash cans and torched cars. Demonstrators blocked major
highways, gas stations and toll booths. Police shot tear gas and water cannons
into crowds of angry rioters, leaving hundreds injured.
France’s most
iconic boulevard, the Champs-Elysees, was a haze of smoke and gas and screams as
demonstrators chanted, “It’s the hour of revolt.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/3/yellow-jackets-france-protest-threatens-macron/
December 4: Trump’s retweet about the
protests in France is wildly inaccurate
The protests are not “a middle class rebellion against cultural Marxism.” Not
even close.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/12/4/18125666/paris-riots-we-want-trump-tweet-france-protests
December 11: Gunman Attacks French Christmas
Market, Killing At Least 3 And Wounding Several
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/11/675849894/gunman-attacks-french-christmas-market-killing-at-least-two-and-wounding-several
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