Perhaps
Macron, the Pure (and Innocent?) is waking up to the world of Realpolitik.
France has
fought 3 wars against the Germans and yet his first foreign visit is to Merkel;
following in the footsteps of Holland and Sarkozy. Why not wait a decent
interval, or let her come and do the courting, after all he is not averse to
older women?
So the
business with Bayrou is nothing but a storm in a teacup, played up by
journalists on the watch for any story of doom.
As the
United Kingdom is indeed heading to its own destiny, probably at the bottom of
the ocean blue, having chosen the lesser of two evils, being caught between the
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
So also France
is heading into the Great Unknown, led by an untested youth, (at least in the
eyes of someone born before the war (2nd World War) and was
stationed in Berlin before the wall was put up let alone before it was torn
down.
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