” Submission. »» In François Bayrou’s mouth, the word resonates particularly. In 2015, it was in a novel bearing this title that Michel Houellebecq had imagined “The old Béarnais politician” Become Prime Minister of an Islamic country. Ten years later, the centrist, actually reached Matignon, resumed the precise term which had hit him, and launches him to condemn the agreement concluded Sunday July 27 between the United States and the European Union: “It is a dark day that when an alliance of free peoples, gathered to assert their values and defend their interests, resolves to submission”, wrote the Prime Minister on Monday on the social network X.
” Submission “. With this anathema, François Bayrou marks a political side. MEP from 1999 to 2002, still president of the European Democratic Party he co -founded, the Prime Minister is usually among the most fervent defenders in the European Union. Here he is who suddenly accuses her figurehead, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, of having betrayed her mission, accepting that European products exported to the United States being suddenly taxed at 15 %, without the American imports in Europe being penalized.
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