The election of Donald Trump, the result of “decades of elite blindness” according to Jean-Noël Barrot

Donald Trump's large victory in the American presidential election and its consequences for Europe undoubtedly question the French political class. Two days after the remarkable exit of Emmanuel Macron, who urged Europeans not to be the “herbivores“devoured by”carnivores“, Jean-Noël Barrot delivered to the Parisian his analysis of the success of the Republican candidate.

If he judges “a bit easy“to see it as the victory of a certain populism, it is for the Minister of Foreign Affairs”result of decades of elite blindness to the upheavals of the world, of their denial of the legitimate exasperation of the middle and working classes“. Jean-Noël Barrot points out in particular “the failure of the Democrats” and their “inability to propose a new horizon, to respond to this anger.”

This Europe which must “muscle up”

Worried about the possible role granted to the wealthy founder of Tesla, Elon Musk, in the future Trump government as a reward for his support in the campaign, the boss of the Quai d'Orsay, on the other hand, wants to be more reassuring about the intentions of the 47th President of the United States. United on the war in Ukraine.

“Donald Trump is too wise to agree to endorse what would be the largest territorial annexation in history in 75 years“, assures the former vice-president of MoDem, who nevertheless warns of a “triple existential risk“for Europe and calls for it to stand”build muscle in the military, industrial and commercial fields“.

A need seen by many political analysts as a necessity while the announced distancing of the United States from the Old Continent raises fears of a brutal imbalance in the balance of power between the EU and Vladimir Putin's Russia.