An Atlanticist Against His Will: Macron’s Foreign Policy if Re-elected
An Atlanticist Against His Will: Macron’s Foreign Policy if Re-elected

Author(s): Łukasz Maślanka
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Security and defense, Military policy, Russian Aggression against Ukraine
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: foreign policy; USA; EU; China; Russia; NATO; France;
Summary/Abstract: The growing antagonism between the United States, the EU, its partners on the one side and Russia and China on the other limits the space for independent foreign policy, which for President Emmanuel Macron was to be a way of increasing the role of France in the world. In the event of his re-election, Macron will continue to call for the construction of the EU as a “superpower” so that the Community can contribute to the shaping of a new model of multilateralism and avoid a return to the Cold War logic of a clash between two blocs. The limit of Macron’s ambitions will, however, be to maintain the unity of the EU, France’s membership of NATO, and its alliance with the United States.

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