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The 27 heads of state and government will meet in Brussels on Thursday June 27 and Friday June 28 for a European Council. Jean-Louis Bourlanges, outgoing president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, discusses the challenges of this crucial summit and the risks for the EU of cohabitation in France.
It’s the end of an era for Emmanuel Macron: barring any huge surprises, this will be the last Council of Heads of State and Government that the President of the Republic will attend, this Thursday and Friday, with full powers. After July 7, he will have to deal with a government, including in the field of European politics, which could be hostile not only to his person, but also to France’s European commitments since 1950, the date of the launch of community construction. . An unprecedented configuration if it comes true, which risks marginalizing France in Europe and around the world.
The main part of this summit will focus on the appointment of the heads of the three main community institutions. We know, since the dinner of the Twenty-Seven on Monday June 17, that the German conservative Ursula von der Leyen will be reappointed as president of the Commission, that the former Portuguese Prime Minister, the socialist António Costa, will inherit the presidency of the European Council and that the liberal Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister of Estonia, will occupy the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Union. Finally, the Maltese conservative, Roberta Metsola, will be reappointed as president of the European Parliament for two and a half years before giving way to a
