Macron's secret plan revealed

"The French President has spent the past two years setting up his chess pieces. Now, with the new European Commission in office, he wants to get down to the work itself — breaking the political deadlock he says is holding back Europe on the global stage", says Beaune, stating that Macron made a conceptual framework, as Politico reveals.
"We're not going to do the Sorbonne speech every year", says Clment Beaune, referring to Macron's landmark speech on Europe in 2017, in which he outlined his vision for the Continent.
"We are now in the implementation phase", Beaune says, claiming that Macron has been laying the groundwork for France to take on a greater role in the EU since the beginning of his presidency. Since his election in 2017, he has visited 21 EU countries — some of which hadn't received a visit from a French president in a decade.
"The idea was to create a "strategy of influence," says Beaune, "which means, ahead of a Commission decision, we can suggest ideas, go on a tour of capitals, make contributions, write papers with other countries".
In 2019, Macron set about building up France's influence within the European institutions: He established the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament; positioned close allies at the helm of the European Central Bank and the European Council, and masterminded Ursula von der Leyen's nomination to the presidency of the European Commission.
It's no surprise, then, that the new Commission's strategic outlook largely maps Macron's own priorities for Europe: fighting climate change and achieving carbon neutrality; introducing a European minimum wage and eurozone-wide unemployment benefits scheme; boosting the EU's capabilities on defense; and coming up with a credible policy of security,...