Macron is openly pro-European and keen to bolster support for the EU – reinforcing the idea that the bloc can help its citizens secure a better life – as a key part of his strategy to counter populism and Euroscepticism.
Support for the EU, battered by long crises over debt and migration, has begun 7 / 17  BIS central bankers' speeches  to recover. The EU’s own latest Eurobarometer report on public opinion, published this month, found that trust in the EU has risen to 42%, from 36% a year ago and 32% in late 2015 (see Figure 7).