r/europeanunion • u/sn0r • 2d ago

Paywall Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-29/macron-vows-retaliation-if-europe-s-digital-sovereignty-attacked
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u/OptimisticRealist__ 2d ago

Macron really is the only pro european leader we have. Its a sad state of affairs

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u/skuple 2d ago

Hated by his own, loved by the others I guess.

I don’t know how he will be (because he will) as the successor of VDL, but as a head of state in the union I really like him.

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u/OptimisticRealist__ 2d ago

Really hope he ends up succeeding VdL, maybe he can salvage VdLs lost decade in the EU...

And tbh, hating our president is tradition in France. Gandhi could be our president and hed get boo'd

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u/otakushinjikun 2d ago

Unless the proposed reforms are finally brought to the negotiations stage and approved, at least in the relevant bits, before 2029, which is impossible, he will not succeed VdL any time soon, given how people keep voting for EPP parties.

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u/Sky-is-here 2d ago

EPP could vote for him as president. European politics are a different beast.

S&D + EPP government I mean haha

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u/glamatovic 2d ago

hating our president is tradition in France

Exactly. The last time a president won reelection on his own merit (i.e: when the other candidate wasn’t from the Front National) was 37 years ago, in 1988

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u/Empty-Blacksmith-592 2d ago

Don’t forget Mario Draghi. They should work together imho.

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u/livinginahologram 2d ago

Macron really is the only pro european leader we have. Its a sad state of affairs

There is also the Portuguese president, he just publicly said a day ago that Trump is a Russian asset. Everybody knows it but nobody has the friggin spine to say it.

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u/thisislieven European Union 2d ago

I think he's one of the best options to succeed VDL eventually.

He has to leave office in 2027 (term-limited) and may be one of the few capable of getting the votes in the European Council. VDL is not term limited but it seems unlikely she runs again (she'll be 69 at the end of her current term and is not popular) and if she does we should all rise against it.

I am not saying Macron is necessarily the very best option, but possibly the best realistic and pretty good option.

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u/international_swiss 2d ago

I agree. He is the only one who says right things Strategic autonomy

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u/OkRussianMoney 2d ago

He is full of shit. We have no digital sovereignty. We are a Colony of USA.

Also will be removed soon, possibly before 2026. More news on September 10th

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u/Niksuski Finland 2d ago

What I have learned is France seems to be the home of a lot of European alternatives to US tech. I think we need to start using those so they can improve.

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u/reallyserious 1d ago

Name drop a few pls. I want to invest.

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u/GeekDane 1d ago

Im using Deezer for music streaming, but they dont look like a good investment.