Not Content With France, Macron Has a Plan to Take On All Europe
- French president seeks to create pan-European political system
- His party, Republic on the Move, positions for EU elections
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Emmanuel Macron’s vision for Europe is unbound by borders, traditions and cultures. But his push to remake the political order is on a collision course with reality.
The 40-year-old president, who won in France with a movement he built from scratch within a year, is planting the seeds of a post-party political system in the European Union. With the EU holding parliamentary elections next year, Macron sees an opportunity to usher in a new era of pan-European governance and disrupt the traditional political parties by tapping into his maverick roots.