“The election of Donald Trump is a global event that not everyone had anticipated,” assures the elected Republican. “No one really knows what he is going to do: we know that Trump hates war, loves tariffs, despises Europeans and is obsessed with China. His victory is a message: Americans voted for Trump because they want order, and he embodied, rightly or wrongly, authority. He embodied order on migration issues or on the question of wokism: it is a message that. we Europeans must hear. Europe is waiting for leadership.”
He believes that “those who should rejoice in this election are the government parties, particularly on the right”: “It is a free warning that we have a duty to hear. There is real firmness to be displayed, a waiting for order in our countries, for authority to be reestablished, we must fight much more firmly against woke ideology, this methodical work of deconstruction of knowledge.” In other words: to win elections again, the French right should use the same arguments as Donald Trump's camp.
Budget: “Not reducing spending is irresponsible”
The former Budget Minister believes that “when we raise taxes, it never brings in what we expect”. “We must remember the context: this budget was made in a very urgent manner, the previous government had not worked well. Since January 1, due to presidential irresponsibility, the government has been prevented from preparing this budget Between the fact that there was no Budget Minister for the first two months, then the European campaign where the minister was told not to release anything so as not to panic the voters, then the dissolution, more. of government during the summer… Then we ask Michel Barnier to draw up a budget in two weeks.”
Jean-François Copé sees this as a mistake by Emmanuel Macron, “totally”. “The responsibility of the President of the Republic in this situation is immense. I regret that Bruno Le Maire did not tell the commission of inquiry that all of his requests for arbitration were refused, and that he There has never been a free hand at the Élysée to control public spending. Lowering taxes is fine, as long as you lower spending. They have never done it, it's irresponsible.
First World War: “We lost awareness of what tragedy was”
As he inaugurates a new section of his Museum of the Great War this Monday, Jean-François Copé reminds us: “I am campaigning for us to know the history of the First World War, because it is the key to explaining everything we experience today”assures Jean-François Copé. “The tragedies in the Balkans, in Ukraine, in the Middle East, the emergence of the United States, the power of China, everything that happened on the African continent: all of this had its source in tragedy of the First World War, which suddenly made people aware of the absolute horror of total war. All the tragedies of the 20th century find their source in the First World War.
The elected official denounces in passing the fact that we have “the memory that falters”: “We have lost awareness of what tragedy was. The meaning of tragedy is war, it is what means that for entire generations, for 2000 years, we lost his father, his brother, his son, that we lived with the vivid memory of death. Today, we have lost all that: it's fortunate, there is no more war in Western Europe. exception of the Balkans. The role of political leaders is to have this historical culture.
