At home, French President Emmanuel Macron still has to prove that he can deliver on his numerous campaign promises and successfully roll on his reforms, all the while facing concerns that he is unhealthily obsessed with power symbolism, his claims to feminism are shady at best, and his media strategy borderline Orwellian. He’s struggling to address problems around France’s class problem, post-colonialism, immigration, and military.
But internationally, Macron’s voice has been louder in six months than François Hollande’s ever was in five years. And if there is one matter in which Macron is truly succeeding, it is standing up to the US president, Donald Trump.
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