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How Macron’s Election and May’s Flop Turned the EU’s Fortunes Around

British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron leave a joint press conference at the Elysee palace, Paris, June 13, 2017 (AP photo by Thibault Camus).
British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron leave a joint press conference at the Elysee palace, Paris, June 13, 2017 (AP photo by Thibault Camus).
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The meeting yesterday between British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron was rich in symbolism and irony. A year ago, neither could have reasonably entertained the notion that they would be leading their countries today. As recently as April, their respective positions regarding the European Union would have led a reasonable observer to assume May would enjoy the upper hand in Tuesday’s meeting. Back then, May had just triggered the EU’s Article 50 to begin the U.K.’s withdrawal from what seemed like a deeply divided—if not mortally wounded—union. Macron was still a virtual unknown, campaigning for the […]

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