Why Macron Thinks “Europe Could Die”

Go Macron. At least he has the balls to push for what he believes instead of waiting in the sidelines

Europe must get its act togèther. Macron is right.

"Europe Could Die" means more like "Grows into Insignificant towards being Poorer"

I am from Germany and I am amazed that there are actually politicians advocating for more EU and taking initiative. Most of the politicians in Germany are just cowardly and backward. It's really sad, that Macron isn't matched with a strong leader in Germany. Imagine the two most influential states in the EU actually working together on much needed policy changes... Edit: no, I don't mean the 1933-45 type of leader. Maybe leadership would be a better word in that place :)

He is mostly right.

Germany got blindsided in the energy sector when they lost access to Russian gas. Im not super interested in their opinions on energy policy. Edit: Holy didn't expect this to blow up. I wanted to say I do understand that the current state of German nuclear was a result of policies from the late 90s early 2000s and that these power stations take years to construct. It just seems bad in hindsight considering nuclear could of been a cleanish power source for Germany's green focus that also provides a sufficient amount of power which their solar and wind initiatives can lack in while also not having them be reliant as heavily on direct adversaries for their energy needs.

Whether is Macron or Mario Draghi, it is clear that Europe has to change, Europe can't afford to keep the way to the cliff

I've started to like Macron more and more lately and I'm glad to see I'm not in the minority with that opinion. He actually pushes for constructive changes and makes a lot of sense to me in most cases, compared to most of the other politicians who just throw around empty populistic phrases, both in the right and the left wing.

TLDR not doing a list of three?!! 2:45

A conclusion 20 years late.

Agreed on the independence from the US. A country, however powerful, that switches its international stance every 4 years, based on the whim of voters on a few swing states, cannot be considered reliable.

With Poland now pursuing a pro-european stance instead of protecting Hungary, this is a good time to take on the topic of stronger integration. Of course, that means a conflict for power over the end result, but I think things are going in a good direction in that regard too.

bureaucracy has become a buzzword. It needs to become more specific. Bureaucracy in a negative sense is when no one takes responsibility, taking longer for the same outcome, and holding back necessary action and creating a crisis due to slow legislation. The crisis we're facing is China abusing european free trade by doing heavy handed government interventionist economic choices for the last decades, and we cannot ignore that anymore. Europes prosperity wasn't built on that type of intervention, many were afraid of it, but we know now that a strong government backing in the correct areas that can actually grow is a force multiplier. If you give factory space and research grants to e.g. green industries to thrive, you're going to accelerate that development. We also learned, if we trade and enrich authoritarian regimes, they won't get better, they just grow into distopian kingdoms. It's extremely important that prosperity and progress comes at the conditions of freedom and fairness.

Germany is hypocritical of nuclear energy, namely being NIMBY-ist on the issue, as they buy energy from France, which is nuclear fission in origin.

Macron is right, thanks god we have someone with common sense in Europe.

"Let's back Super Mario" LOL

There is strength in number. And no one likes it when someone pulls the blanket to its side

I always find it a bit funny when Germans, Italians and the French talking about how the EU needs to have less bureaucracy, when they are probably the three most bureaucratic countries in Europe. I agree with them as a whole, but they can’t even fix their own bureaucratic issues, how do they expect to fix the entire EU?

I would like to see Draghi as commission president.

Absolutely agree with Macron, we do need to step up as a more cohesive player on the world stage, or we'll end up fading into obscurity