CER podcast: Where will Macron now take France and Europe?

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🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this week’s CER podcast, we discussed Macron’s re-election as French President. We strung together the audio from an event that we held just after the elections. Pascal Lamy of the Paris Peace Forum, journalist and broadcaster Christine Ockrent and the Atlantic Council’s Ben Haddad joined us to consider France’s domestic political landscape, Macron’s victory, his vision for French and EU policy this time around, and what the potential stumbling blocks might be. Presented and produced by our media co-ordinator Rosie Giorgi. Index 01:46 - Figures from the first round of voting and what they show about French society 03:38 - Demographic comparison between the Maastricht referendum in 1992 vs. the second round of these elections 05:01 - The diminished influence of socialists and conservatives in France 06:46 - June's legislative elections 08:37 - Climate policy as a priority 09:29 - Trade and economic policy under Macron 10:55 - Europe as central to Macron’s identity 13:19 - 'European sovereignty' vs. 'strategic autonomy' 15:13 - Energy security 18:00 - The French relationship with Central and Eastern European member-states 21:11 - The enlargement debate

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CIA podcast.
0:04.0	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:05.9	future that we want, and we all
0:08.0	all together to the courage to it
0:09.7	for us in Germany is the
0:11.9	beckrentness to the European Europe
0:13.6	a part of our state's resolve.
0:15.6	A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world
0:17.8	because an integrated Europe remains vital to our
0:20.1	international order. This is the moment for Europe world because an integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.3	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:27.6	Hello and welcome to the Centre for European Reform podcast. I'm Rosie Georgie, the CER's media
0:33.5	coordinator, and you might have heard me on some of our other episodes. In this one,
0:38.3	we're going to look at the consequences of the recent French presidential elections using the audio
0:43.1	from an event that we held just after they took place. Our director Charles Grant moderated
0:48.3	the discussion and our speakers were Pascal Lamy, who is president of the Paris Peace Forum,
0:53.6	Christine O'Krent, who's a political
0:55.6	commentator and broadcast journalist, and Ben Haddad, who is the senior director of the Europe
1:01.2	Centre at the Atlantic Council.
1:04.0	In this episode, you're going to hear their takes on what Macron's re-election says about the
1:07.8	French political landscape, the directions in which he's likely to take
1:11.5	domestic and EU policy, and where he might be met with some resistance. Now, just to recap the final
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