French President Emmanuel Macron has played hardball on Britain's Brexit extension request but he's unlikely to follow De Gaulle's lead and say 'non.'
April 10, 2019
Now the U.K.’s future in the European Union looks like it will hinge on what De Gaulle’s successor in the Elysee Palace, Emmanuel Macron has to say about it. Macron is upset Britain’s Brexit agonies are spilling over into the rest of EU business, particularly next month’s European Parliament elections. He’s also worried that any Brexit extension will continue to cast a shadow over the bloc, threatening his dream of deeper European integration.Standing up to Britain works in Macron’s favor domestically. Weakened by yellow vest protesters at home, he’s proving he can still defend French interests abroad.
“He knows this, and will hence play his part in the collective leadership of the 27 in a way that De Gaulle could never have imagined doing.” Though Britain was absent at the EEC’s formation, it soon changed its mind. Its ambitions, though, were thwarted by De Gaulle. Relations have grown closer in the decades since, bar the odd spat — notably over the 2003 U.S.-led war in Iraq, which Britain, under Prime Minister Tony Blair, participated in but France, under President Jacques Chirac, balked at.
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