Emmanuel Macron’s decision to play Beethoven’s Ode to Joy as he walked on stage to mark his victory in the French presidential election had pro-Europeans in rapture.“I had tears in my eyes,” Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the longtime French-German politician who served as a European Union lawmaker for two decades, told broadcaster Europe1 about the moment he heard the EU anthem. “With that gesture, he anchored France to Europe.”Next comes the hard part: Reviving a sense of purpose at the EU’s core. The defeat of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen gives the bloc a political shot in the arm and may advance …read more
Source: Gulf times
