His address on Pnyka Hill last September, as part of his visit to Athens, his first ever official trip abroad as France’s President, but also his speech at Sorbonne University a few weeks later were intended to send a clear message about France’s European ambitions, covering everything from common defence to harmonisation of tax policy, including a Finance Minister for the eurozone.
As a Southern pro-European myself, I strongly believe that the urgency in Europe is not to be complacent and leave the populists dictate the agenda.