Macron Wins: What Does This Mean?

It is certainly good news for the EU in which Macron, unlike Le Pen, is a passionate believer. He is also an internationalist, not quite the same thing as a globalist, so expect more of France on the world stage. He has come from nowhere, forming his own party which he calls a movement, to challenge the establishment of both right and left and has defeated both.

He is the youngest French leader since Napoleon. He is 39 and his wife is 64. As a platform orator he has no equal in Europe. France is a seething cauldron of problems and tensions daily stirred by opposing forces, unable to reconcile and move forward. He has promised to deliver a new French dawn in which right and left join hands and march forward.

That this is no ordinary man cannot be doubted. Yet we really know so little and the hurdles are so high, that perhaps only two possible outcomes beckon. Either he will be the third giant leader of the Republic in its numerous manifestations, after Napoleon and de Gaulle, or it will all end in tears. This does not look like a President who will just let his term of office slip by unremarked.