#72 European Union: The Strasbourg Oath (II)

Key Points:

- a framework called “European political community”. Emmanuel Macron calls it the "Strasbourg oath"

- In that speech, Macron talked about: 1) reforming European treaties, 2) the qualified majority voting.

- French perspective, it’s an old topic.

- With the current vote at a unanimity, with 27 Members, clearly the European Union is stuck.

- Modification of the treaties and qualified majority seem to be the most obvious path now that the European Union has reached a number of 27 members.

- This is why Macron is now opening the door to that “new political community”.

- Macron goes back to an idea that had first emerged when the Soviet Union had collapsed and that had been expressed by then President Mitterrand.

- While the monetary union did go ahead and moved forward successfully, nothing of substance really happened on the political front.