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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

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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


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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

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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

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November 13:
Donald Trump: Without the US, the French would be speaking German

US president takes aim at Macron and French wine.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-without-the-us-the-french-would-be-speaking-german/

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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