Speech (extract) by Emmanuel Macron

Speech (extract) by Emmanuel Macron

[…] ‘We must build an ambitious choice by giving our fellow citizens a vision, a 30-year vision, which will then enable them to take these small steps and these progressions because they need a course, because the nationalists are clear, because the demagogues are clear, because the fears are clear. Europe’s volunteers must be just as much, with strength, with ambition! Let us therefore commit ourselves together to a Europe that protects and carries this ambition, a Europe of digital technology and energy and climate change, the strengthening of the euro zone, a trade policy that is more protective and consistent with our health and environmental objectives, a more unified migration policy, a social, fiscal and democratic convergence, a policy of intelligence, research, innovation, with this new method, that of the will and what is undoubtedly in line with that of a form of risk-taking. […] Let us not be weak and choose. Let us not be divided, but let us unite. Let us not be afraid, but let us dare to do and be worthy of our stories, and let us not wait, let us act now.’ […]