Macron Struggles to Deliver His Vision for a Stronger Europe
- French president to outline his priorities for EU on Thursday
- He is failing to convince voters ahead of European elections
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Emmanuel Macron wants to set the stage for more robust European defense and drive support for Kyiv, yet he faces a battle to get results or convince voters at home to back him.
The French president will outline his vision for Europe at Paris’s Sorbonne University on Thursday, echoing a landmark speech he gave there months into his first term in 2017. His calls then for a common European defense force, budget and doctrine now seem prescient in a world that has become more hostile, with war returning to European soil.