Quotes by Emmanuel Macron - Page 3

I am attached to a strict approach to Brexit: I respect the British vote, but the worst thing would be a sort of weak E.U. vis-a-vis the British.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Respect
Approach
British
Strict
Vote
Weak
Worst
Attached
Brexit
Worst Thing
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What matters to me is to find rational solutions for those that are facing difficulties so that France preserves jobs and its ability to innovate.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
France
Preserves
Rational
Solutions
Difficulties
Facing
Matters
Innovate
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The strategy we must follow is to defend the special relationship between Great Britain and Europe and, more specifically, between Europe and France.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Britain
Great Britain
Strategy
Defend
Specifically
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The challenge is to open a new page in our political life and to take action so that everyone is able to find his or her place in France and in Europe.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
France
Political Life
Page
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We are a continent of refugees, and if you say we can't integrate refugees, that's not consistent with our values, even if borders cannot be wide open.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Borders
Consistent
Wide
Continent
Integrate
Refugees
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I am not shy. I am for an open society. I am for a progressive world. I do not propose to reform France; I propose to transform it at its deepest level.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Society
France
Progressive
Propose
Shy
Society World I Am
Open
Open Society
Transform
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De facto, you have a multi-speed Europe. You look at the Schengen, you look at the euro zone, all this kind of cooperations, you have a multi-speed Europe.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Euro
Zone
Facto
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As to the euro zone avant-garde, it must go towards more solidarity and integration: a common budget, a common borrowing capability, and fiscal convergence.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Avant Garde
Borrowing
Capability
Convergence
Euro
Integration
Solidarity
Zone
Budget
Fiscal
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The only way governments or would-be governments respond to ills these days is by seeking to lower the temperature... and that tends to mean public spending.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Seeking
Temperature
Would Be
Respond
Governments
Ills
Tends
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The refugee crisis is a challenge for the whole of Europe, and Europe - it's a very fair point to say it's not just a security issue. It's also an economic issue.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Crisis
Economic
Europe
Refugee
Security
Challenge
Fair
Issue
Point
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You can suddenly have a series of countries waking up and saying, 'I want the same status as the Brits,' which will be, de facto, the dismantling of the rest of Europe.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Brits
Waking
Dismantling
Facto
Status
Waking Up
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Under the French system, you have to take into consideration that every five years, the president is directly elected by the people. He's the one that has the legitimacy.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Consideration
Legitimacy
By The People
Directly
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We have the eurozone. Could we accept to be cleared, regulated, and de facto have inflows and outflows from a country that has decided to leave the E.U.? For me, definitely not.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Eurozone
Cleared
Facto
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I've taken my time. I've thought about it; I've consulted, and I've decided that we are going to create a new political movement, one that will be neither on the Right or the Left.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
My Time
Political Movement
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We ask our companies to restructure; we ask employees to work more for less money because there is overproduction, but then we're unable to defend them from cheaper Chinese imports. We are insane.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Cheaper
Chinese
Imports
Insane
Restructure
Work Money More
Defend
Employees
Less Money
Unable
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The financial passport is part of full access to the E.U. market, and a precondition for that is the contribution to the E.U. budget. That has been the case in Norway and in Switzerland. That is clear.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Access
Contribution
Financial
Norway
Switzerland
Budget
Case
Passport
Market
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We are implementing an in-depth reform on labor market, not to reduce rights for workers but to provide more visibility and more efficiency to investors and employers because it's the key for job creation.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Creation
Efficiency
Employers
Implementing
Investors
Job Creation
Labor
Visibility
Workers
In-Depth
Market
Provide
Reduce
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I don't want a tailor-made approach where the British have the best of two worlds. That will be too big an incentive for others to leave and kill the European idea, which is based on shared responsibilities.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Incentive
Responsibilities
Shared
Worlds
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We have to be extremely strict on the implementation of Brexit so there is a common approach between member states. We must avoid a sector-by-sector or country-by-country approach, and ask the U.K. to be clear.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Implementation
Strict
Brexit
Member
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Leaving the E.U. would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the U.K., which would then be a little country on the world scale. It would isolate itself and become a trading post and arbitration place at Europe's border.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Arbitration
Leaving
Trading
Scale
Border
Isolate
Post
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If the U.K. wants a commercial access treaty to the European market, the British must contribute to the European budget like the Norwegians and the Swiss do. If London doesn't want that, then it must be a total exit.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Exit
Swiss
Budget
Contribute
Total
Treaty
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There are two projects facing each other. There's Marine Le Pen's project of a fractured, closed France. On the other hand, you have my project which is a republican, patriotic project aiming at... reconciling France.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Marine
Patriotic
Aiming
Closed
Facing
Fractured
Reconciling
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You need basically some accountability rules, which means democratic checks and balances at the euro zone level, and definitely, you have to increase convergence in terms of taxes, in terms of social affairs and so on.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Accountability
Checks
Convergence
Democratic
Euro
Zone
Rules
Affairs
Balances
Basically
Checks And Balances
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Our interests lie in attracting added value and talent to France as a result of Brexit, but also in having a balanced relationship with Great Britain. We must not sacrifice the short term for our bilateral relationship.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Balanced
Britain
Great Britain
Sacrifice
Added
Attracting
Bilateral
Brexit
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I don't believe that killing the French model in order to become the U.K. or the United States overnight is the solution. You have a big debate on inequality there, and for our society, a lot of inequality would not be bearable.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Bearable
Debate
Inequality
Overnight
Solution
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Our mission... it will be difficult, it will take time, it will be demanding for all men and women... will be to act in such a way that French people of the Muslim faith are always more proud of being French than of being Muslim.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Men And Women
Demanding
French People
Mission
Such A Way
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I kept trying, proposing, pushing... If you want to succeed, you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately, many things were left half done. The choice was made not to launch a second wave of economic reforms that I was proposing.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Pushing
Wave
Unfortunately
Launch
Reforms
Proposing
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France was given up to fire and bloodshed, she experienced famine, she experienced the worst of things, she was nearly chopped up in pieces forever because of the decision... to exclude, to brand one party as guilty and annihilate them.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Bloodshed
Decision
Famine
Fire
Forever
France
Given
Guilty
Party
Worst
Annihilate
Brand
Nearly
Chopped
Exclude
Experienced
One Party
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To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Debate
Democratic
Economy
Identity
Return
Security
Adult
Avoid
Original
Project
Trap
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I touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people's fears because it hasn't built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Consensus
Flawed
Ideological
Last Minute
Solutions
Touched
Explanations
Compromises
Fears
Ignores
Political System
Produces
Pushes
Rarely
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It's about our ability precisely to integrate a people and offer jobs, and that, for me, is one of the key rationales of the reforms I'm pushing, and I'm a strong believer in that when you lift barriers, when you deregulate a lot of stuff, basically you improve the equality of opportunities.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Equality
Barriers
Believer
Pushing
Integrate
Reforms
Lift
Precisely
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You need a debate and a vote on the principles: Do you want more Europe or less Europe? Do you believe we are more efficient with defense and security with Europe, or not? Do you believe we are more efficient for our companies with or without Europe? Those are the questions we have to discuss and push our people to vote on it.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Debate
Defense
Efficient
Principles
Discuss
Our People
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A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it's a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren't French.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Approach
Block
China
Managers
Ownership
Reality
Attack
Classical
French
Global
Main
Merger
View
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When you discuss your steel industry with China you are credible because you are part of the E.U., not because you are just U.K. You will be completely killed otherwise. You will never be in the situation to negotiate face to face with the Chinese because your domestic market is not relevant for the Chinese in comparison with their domestic market.
Emmanuel Macron / French Minister Of The Economy, Finance And Industry
Chinese
Comparison
Credible
Relevant
Steel
Face Your Will
Discuss
Domestic
Negotiate
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