{"id":505661,"date":"2025-10-17T02:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/505661\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:10:11","slug":"as-france-burned-macron-was-looking-for-his-legacy-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/505661\/","title":{"rendered":"As France burned, Macron was looking for his legacy \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With fewer than 20 months left in the Elys\u00e9e Palace, Macron is laser-focused on cementing his place in the history books \u2014 and believes he\u2019s earned that distinction for his work in the Middle East, they said.<\/p>\n<p>The French president wasn\u2019t going to miss his chance to be there for Monday\u2019s peace summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik, even with his house on fire and irrespective of it forcing his twice hand-picked prime minister, S\u00e9bastien Lecornu, to push back presenting his draft budget by a day, nearly missing the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>French officials in recent days have been working hard to craft a narrative that the Gaza peace plan pushed by U.S. President Donald Trump was triggered by Macron\u2019s own proposal and his lead role in pushing for recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations General Assembly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-palestinian-statehood-emmanuel-macron-un-general-assembly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last month<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why Macron really wanted to make it to the summit in Egypt, said a government adviser who, like others quoted in this piece, was granted anonymity to speak candidly. An ally of Lecornu said the president was \u201cvery, very focused\u201d on Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The French political system is designed so that the president can represent the country on the world stage while the prime minister looks after matters at home. But these are exceptional circumstances in France, with Lecornu resigning after just 14 hours before being reappointed and some politicians even speculating that Macron might not even see out his time in office.<\/p>\n<p>At first sight, Macron appears to be following in the footsteps of former presidents, such as Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, who pivoted to the international stage in the later years of their terms after losing their parliamentary majorities. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With fewer than 20 months left in the Elys\u00e9e Palace, Macron is laser-focused on cementing his place in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1194,35753,6659,473,32,33184,321,33,34,2000,299,36,158900,53753,26130,33183,8175,11582,43,44,839,23901,5111,617,47,48,12338,1200,5664,49,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-505661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-cement","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-edouard-philippe","14":"tag-egypt","15":"tag-elections","16":"tag-emmanuel-macron","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-francois-mitterrand","21":"tag-gabriel-attal","22":"tag-giorgio-leali","23":"tag-jacques-chirac","24":"tag-labor","25":"tag-lobbying","26":"tag-macron","27":"tag-marine-le-pen","28":"tag-middle-east","29":"tag-national-politics","30":"tag-parliament","31":"tag-pensions","32":"tag-poll","33":"tag-rights","34":"tag-sebastien-lecornu","35":"tag-tax","36":"tag-unemployment","37":"tag-united-states","38":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115387080666800112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}