The FAZ's correspondent in Paris, Michaela Wiegel, takes stock of the events in France under Emmanuel Macron.
Tuesday, 27. March 2018, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Aula)
Emmanuel Macron entered the Élysée Palace as an ambitious moderniser. In the election campaign he grasped how to channel the French people’s collective longing for change. How far has he come in his attempt to make good on his double promise to awaken both France and Europe? Are there signs that the momentum is already ebbing away, or will the President manage to consolidate his political movement La République en marche ? The extent to which Macron’s political fate depends on the inclinations of the German government will also be discussed.
Discussion after the lecture.
Michaela Wiegel, born in 1968, has been following political developments in France for the ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’ since 1998. Her posting as a correspondent in Paris has rarely been as turbulent as during the last presidential election campaign that was so full of surprising twists and turns. She dedicated her biography ‘Ein europäischer Visionär – eine Herausforderung für Deutschland’ (‘A European visionary – a challenge for Germany?’), published by Europa-Verlag in March 2018, to the winner of that election, Emmanuel Macron. She studied at Sciences Po in Paris and at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University.