In yesterday’s Times, David Aaronovitch praised Emmanuel Macron for his speech on the future of the European Union: apparently, Macron can deliver “a united European approach based on a united European belief”. This plays off an odd belief that, while the British view on things must always be hopelessly, even schizophrenically, divided, there is some common view, to which Europeans instinctively refer, that is basically sensible. And that is the basis of the article, in which Michel Barnier and Macron play essentially benign roles, correcting the UK when it errs, and telling of compromise at every turn.
Why the ‘European vision’ is distinctly…
In yesterday’s Times, David Aaronovitch praised Emmanuel Macron for his speech on the future of the European Union: apparently, Macron can deliver “a united European approach based on a united European belief”. This plays off an odd belief that, while the British view on things must always be hopelessly, even schizophrenically, divided, there is some common view, to which Europeans instinctively refer, that is basically sensible. And that is the basis of the article, in which Michel Barnier and Macron play essentially benign roles, correcting the UK when it errs, and telling of compromise at every turn.