What Macron's Victory Means for Embattled Europe, and for Merkel
- French election result set to reinvigorate Paris-Berlin axis
- Still no concrete German action seen before federal election
Macron Wins 66% of French Vote, Le Pen 34%
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Emmanuel Macron’s decision to play Beethoven’s Ode to Joy as he walked on stage to mark his victory in the French presidential election had pro-Europeans in rapture.
“I had tears in my eyes,” Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the longtime French-German politician who served as a European Union lawmaker for two decades, told broadcaster Europe1 about the moment he heard the EU anthem. “With that gesture, he anchored France to Europe.”