French President Emmanuel Macron, who is positioning himself as a champion of a united Europe, may in practice lead the European Union to a split, and Brexit will be the lesser of evils for the union, writes The Daily Telegraph.
“Emmanuel Macron today is a far more dangerous threat to the European Union than Brexit,” says the material, the author of which analyzes the vision of the European future, which the French leader outlined in his publication.
Macron began to criticize Britain’s withdrawal from the EU, but his main goal is Eastern European states, which became part of the union in 2004, the author writes.
According to him, the call for a “European revival” can serve as the beginning of a large redistribution of the European Union with the separation of the “elite part” of the states of Western Europe, which will be alternately headed by Paris and Berlin. The statements by Macron, the article says, are connected with his attempts to divert attention from the protests raging in France. However, in this way the president once again heated the situation against the background of the upcoming elections to the European Parliament.
The author emphasizes that the outcome of the statements could be resistance from those countries that, according to the idea of the President of France, are members of the EU “second class”. Such an alignment will only strengthen the positions of euro-skeptics at the most inappropriate moment for this and weaken the “traditional parties”. And if the “Brussels Machine” is stopped, then this would entail “chaotic consequences for the block,” the author stated.