DIANA JOHNSTONE: Emmanuel Macron has said that he wants to spend only a
short time in political life, before getting back to business. He has a
mission, and he is in a hurry. If he
gains an absolute majority in the June parliamentary elections, he has a
free hand to govern for five years. He means to use this period not to
“reform” the country, as his predecessors put it, but to “transform”
France into a different sort of country. If he has his way, in five
years France will no longer be a sovereign nation, but a reliable region
in a federalized European Union, following a rigorous economic policy
made in Germany by bankers and a bellicose foreign policy made in
Washington by neocons.
