175 Facts About Emmanuel Macron

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frederic Macron is a French politician serving as President of France since 2017.

Emmanuel Macron was appointed Elysee deputy secretary-general by President Francois Hollande shortly after his election in May 2012, making him one of Hollande's senior advisers.

Emmanuel Macron was appointed to the Government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls as Minister of Economics, Industry and Digital Affairs in August 2014.

Emmanuel Macron resigned in August 2016, launching a campaign for the 2017 presidential election.

At the age of 39, Emmanuel Macron became the youngest president in French history.

Emmanuel Macron appointed Edouard Philippe as prime minister until his resignation in 2020, when he appointed Jean Castex.

Emmanuel Macron was elected to a second term in the 2022 presidential election, again defeating Le Pen, thus becoming the first French presidential candidate to win reelection since Jacques Chirac in 2002.

Emmanuel Macron continued Operation Chammal in the war against the Islamic State and joined in the international condemnation of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Emmanuel Macron is the son of Francoise Macron, a physician, and Jean-Michel Macron, professor of neurology at the University of Picardy.

Emmanuel Macron has two siblings, Laurent, born in 1979, and Estelle, born in 1982.

Emmanuel Macron commonly visited Bagneres-de-Bigorre to visit his grandmother Germaine, whom he called "Manette".

Emmanuel Macron was educated mainly at the Jesuit institute Lycee la Providence in Amiens before his parents sent him to finish his last year of school at the elite Lycee Henri-IV in Paris, where he completed the high school curriculum and the undergraduate program with a "Bac S, Mention Tres bien".

Emmanuel Macron's parents sent him off to Paris due to their alarm at the bond he had formed with Brigitte Auziere, a married teacher with three children at Jesuites de la Providence, who later became his wife.

In Paris, Emmanuel Macron twice failed to gain entry to the Ecole normale superieure.

Emmanuel Macron instead studied philosophy at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Defense, obtaining a DEA degree, with a thesis on Machiavelli and Hegel.

Around 1999 Emmanuel Macron worked as an editorial assistant to Paul Ricoeur, the French Protestant philosopher who was then writing his last major work, La Memoire, l'Histoire, l'Oubli.

Emmanuel Macron became a member of the editorial board of the literary magazine Esprit.

Emmanuel Macron did not perform national service because he was pursuing his graduate studies.

Emmanuel Macron obtained a master's degree in public affairs at Sciences Po, majoring in "Public Guidance and Economy" before training for a senior civil service career at the selective Ecole nationale d'administration, training at the French Embassy in Nigeria and at the prefecture of Oise before graduating in 2004.

Emmanuel Macron was mentored by Jean-Pierre Jouyet, the then-head of the IGF.

Emmanuel Macron was inspired to leave the government due to the election of Nicolas Sarkozy to the presidency.

Emmanuel Macron was originally offered the job by Francois Henrot.

Emmanuel Macron formed a relationship with Alain Minc, a businessman on the supervisory board of Le Monde.

In 2010, Emmanuel Macron was promoted to partner with the bank after working on the recapitalization of Le Monde and the acquisition by Atos of Siemens IT Solutions and Services.

Emmanuel Macron had been a member of the Socialist Party since he was 24, but renewed his subscription to the party from only 2006 to 2009.

Emmanuel Macron met Francois Hollande through Jean-Pierre Jouyet in 2006 and joined his staff in 2010.

In 2007, Emmanuel Macron attempted to run for a seat in the National Assembly in Picardy under the Socialist Party label in the 2007 legislative elections his application was declined.

Emmanuel Macron was offered the chance to be the deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister Francois Fillon in 2010, though he declined.

On 15 May 2012, Emmanuel Macron became the deputy secretary-general of the Elysee, a senior role in President Francois Hollande's staff.

Emmanuel Macron tried to hold back the large tax increases on the highest earners that were planned by the government.

Emmanuel Macron was one of the deciding voices on not regulating the salaries of CEOs.

On 10 June 2014, it was announced that Emmanuel Macron had resigned from his role and was replaced by Laurence Boone.

Jouyet said that Emmanuel Macron left to "continue personal aspirations" and create his own financial consultancy firm.

Emmanuel Macron was shortly afterwards employed at the University of Berlin with the help of businessman Alain Minc.

Emmanuel Macron was offered a chance to be a candidate in the municipal elections in 2014 in his hometown of Amiens.

Emmanuel Macron was appointed as the Minister of Economics and Industry in the second Valls Cabinet on 26 August 2014, replacing Arnaud Montebourg.

Emmanuel Macron was the youngest Minister of Economics since Valery Giscard d'Estaing in 1962.

Emmanuel Macron was branded by the media as the "Anti-Montebourg" due to being pro-EU and much more moderate, while Montebourg was eurosceptic and left-wing.

Emmanuel Macron was widely criticized for being unable to prevent the closing down of an Ecopla factory in Isere.

The "Emmanuel Macron Law" was Emmanuel Macron's signature law package that was eventually pushed through parliament using the 49.3 procedure.

Emmanuel Macron presented the Emmanuel Macron Law to a council of ministers.

Emmanuel Macron first became known to the French public after his appearance on the French TV programme "Des Paroles Et Des Actes" in March 2015.

Emmanuel Macron threatened to leave Manuel Valls' second government over the proposed reform on removing dual-nationality from terrorists.

Emmanuel Macron took various foreign trips, including one to Israel where he spoke on the advancement of digital technology.

The law, titled "Emmanuel Macron 2" was going to be much bigger than the original Emmanuel Macron law with a larger aim of making the French economy competitive.

Emmanuel Macron was given the chance to insert his opinion into the El Khomri law and put specific parts of "Emmanuel Macron 2" into the law though El Khomri could overturn these with help of other ministers.

Amid tensions and deterioration of relations with the current government, Emmanuel Macron founded an independent political party, En Marche, in Amiens on 6 April 2016.

Emmanuel Macron was invited to attend a festival in Orleans by mayor Olivier Carre in May 2016, the festival is organized every year to celebrate Orleans' liberation by Joan of Arc.

France Info and LCI reported that Emmanuel Macron had attached the Republican values of the Fifth Republic to Joan of Arc and then in a speech, he compared himself to Joan of Arc.

Emmanuel Macron later went to Puy du Fou and declared he was "not a socialist" in a speech amid rumours he was going to leave the current government.

On 30 August 2016, Emmanuel Macron resigned from the government ahead of the 2017 presidential election, to devote himself to his En Marche movement.

Emmanuel Macron first announced that he was considering running for president in April 2016, and after his resignation from the position of economy minister, media sources began to find patterns in Macron's fundraising and typical presidential campaign fundraising tactics.

In October 2016, Emmanuel Macron criticized Hollande's goal of being a "normal" president, saying that France needed a more "Jupiterian presidency".

On 16 November 2016, Emmanuel Macron formally declared his candidacy for the French presidency after months of speculation.

Emmanuel Macron had wished that Hollande would join the race several months beforehand, saying that Hollande was the legitimate candidate for the Socialist Party.

Shortly after announcing his run, Jean-Christophe Cambadelis and Manuel Valls both asked Emmanuel Macron to run in the Socialist Party presidential primary though Emmanuel Macron ultimately refused.

Emmanuel Macron's campaign, headed by French economist Sophie Ferracci, announced in December 2016 that it had raised 3.7 million euros in donations without public funding.

Michel Sapin, his successor and Minister of Economics saw nothing illegal about Emmanuel Macron's actions, saying that Emmanuel Macron had the right to spend the funds.

Emmanuel Macron said in response to these allegations that it was "defamatory" and that none of the ministerial budget had been spent on his party.

Mediapart reported that Emmanuel Macron had over fifty magazine covers dedicated purely to him compared to Melenchon's "handful" despite similar followings online and both having large momentum during the campaign.

Emmanuel Macron has been consistently labelled by the far-left and far-right as the "media candidate" and has been viewed as such in opinion polls.

Emmanuel Macron is friends with the owners of Le Monde and Claude Perdiel the former owner of Nouvel Observateur.

Emmanuel Macron progressed to the second round with Marine Le Pen.

The debate lasted for 2 hours and Emmanuel Macron was considered the winner according to opinion polls.

Emmanuel Macron's campaign had been presented a report before in March 2017 by the Japanese cyber security firm Trend Micro detailing how En Marche had been the target of phishing attacks.

Emmanuel Macron is the first president to win a second term since Jacques Chirac in 2002.

Emmanuel Macron won the second round of the presidential election on 7 May 2017 by a landslide according to preliminary results, making the candidate of the National Front, Marine Le Pen, concede.

Emmanuel Macron is the first president of France born after the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958.

On 3 July 2020, Emmanuel Macron appointed the centre-right Jean Castex as the Prime Minister of France.

Emmanuel Macron aims to shift union-management relations away from the adversarial lines of the current French system and toward a more flexible, consensus-driven system modelled after Germany and Scandinavia.

Emmanuel Macron has pledged to act against companies employing cheaper labour from eastern Europe and in return affecting jobs of French workers, what he has termed as "social dumping".

The largest trade union, the CFDT, has taken a conciliatory approach to Emmanuel Macron's push and has engaged in negotiations with the president, while the more militant CGT is more hostile to reforms.

On 16 March 2023 Emmanuel Macron passed a law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, leading to protests.

Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to speed up asylum applications and deportations but give refugees better housing.

In November 2019, Emmanuel Macron introduced new immigration rules to restrict the number of refugees reaching France, while stating to "take back control" of the immigration policy.

In February 2017, Emmanuel Macron announced a plan to offer voluntary redundancy in an attempt to further cut jobs from the French civil service.

In December 2019, Emmanuel Macron informed that he would scrap the 20th-century pension system and introduce a single nations pension system managed by the state.

In January 2020, after weeks of public transport shutdown and vandalization across Paris against the new pension plan, Emmanuel Macron compromised on the plan by revising the retirement age.

Later that day Emmanuel Macron stated that 13 terror plots had been foiled since 2017 began.

Emmanuel Macron attended the 2017 Brussels summit on 25 May 2017, his first NATO summit as president of France.

On 29 May 2017, Emmanuel Macron met with Vladimir Putin at the Palace of Versailles.

The meeting sparked controversy when Emmanuel Macron denounced Russia Today and Sputnik, accusing the news agencies of being "organs of influence and propaganda, of lying propaganda".

Emmanuel Macron urged cooperation in the conflict against ISIS and warned that France would respond with force in Syria if chemical weapons are used.

Emmanuel Macron urged a tough international stance to pressure North Korea into negotiations, on the same day it fired a missile over Japan.

Emmanuel Macron affirmed his support for the Iranian nuclear deal and criticized Venezuela's government as a "dictatorship".

Emmanuel Macron remarked larger budget, integrated capital markets, effective defence policy and quick decision-making holds the key for Europe.

Emmanuel Macron, who "attempted a high-risk diplomatic gambit", thought that the Foreign Minister of Iran might be able to defuse the tense situation over the Iranian nuclear programme in spite of the recent uptick in tensions between the Islamic Republic and the United States and Britain.

In 2021, Emmanuel Macron was reported as saying Northern Ireland was not truly part of the United Kingdom following disputes with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson over implementations of the Northern Ireland protocol.

Emmanuel Macron later denied this, saying he was referring to the fact that Great Britain is separated from Northern Ireland by sea in reference to the Irish Sea border.

On 26 November 2021, Emmanuel Macron signed with the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi the "Quirinal Treaty" at the Quirinal Palace, in Rome.

On 16 June 2022, Emmanuel Macron visited Ukraine alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

Emmanuel Macron met with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and express "European Unity" for Ukraine.

Emmanuel Macron said that the nations that remained neutral in the Russo-Ukrainian War made a historic mistake and are complicit in the new imperialism.

Emmanuel Macron argued that Europe should focus on boosting its own defence industries and reducing dependence on the US dollar.

On 10 July 2022, The Guardian revealed that Emmanuel Macron had assisted Uber in lobbying during his term as the Minister of Economics and Industry, leading to calls for a parliamentary inquiry by opposition lawmakers.

In defence of himself, Emmanuel Macron expressed that he "did his job" and that he would "do it again tomorrow and the day after tomorrow".

Emmanuel Macron is accused by some members of the yellow vests of being an "ultra-liberal president for the rich".

Emmanuel Macron was dubbed the president des tres riches by former Socialist French president Francois Hollande.

Emmanuel Macron has called himself both a "man of the left" and "liberal" in his book Revolution.

Emmanuel Macron has since been labelled an economic neoliberal with a socio-cultural liberal viewpoint.

Emmanuel Macron has rejected centrist as a label, although political scientist Luc Rouban has compared his platform to former centrist president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who is the only other French president to have been elected on a centrist platform.

Emmanuel Macron has been compared to former president Valery Giscard d'Estaing due to their ability to win a presidential election on a centrist platform and for their similar governing styles.

Observers have noted that while they are alike ideologically, d'Estaing had ministerial experience and time in Parliament to show for his political life while Emmanuel Macron had never been elected before.

Emmanuel Macron has advocated in favour of the free market and reducing the public-finances deficit.

Emmanuel Macron added that he is "neither right nor left" and that he advocates a "collective solidarity".

Emmanuel Macron became the most vocal proponent of the economic overhaul of the country.

Emmanuel Macron has stated that he wants to go further than the El Khomri law when reforming the labour code.

Emmanuel Macron wants to remove investment income from the wealth tax so that it is solely a tax on high-value property.

Emmanuel Macron wants to exempt 18 million households from local residence tax, branding the tax as "unfair" during his 2017 presidential campaign.

Emmanuel Macron has advocated for the end of the 35-hour work week; however, his view has changed over time and he now seeks reforms that aim to preserve the 35-hour work week while increasing France's competitiveness.

Emmanuel Macron has said that he wants to return flexibility to companies without ending the 35-hour work week.

Emmanuel Macron has supported cutting the number of civil servants by 120,000.

Emmanuel Macron supports spending cuts, saying he would cut 60 billion euros in public spending over a span of five years.

Emmanuel Macron has supported the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union and criticized the Walloon government for trying to block it.

Emmanuel Macron believes that CETA should not require the endorsement of national parliaments because "it undermines the EU".

In March 2018, Emmanuel Macron announced that the government would spend 1.5 billion euros on artificial intelligence in order to boost innovation.

In 2017, Emmanuel Macron described France's colonization of Algeria as a "crime against humanity".

In January 2021, Emmanuel Macron stated there would be "no repentance nor apologies" for the French colonization of Algeria, colonial abuses or French involvement during the Algerian independence war.

Emmanuel Macron described the 2011 military intervention in Libya as a "historic error".

In 2012, Emmanuel Macron was a Young Leader with the French-American Foundation.

Emmanuel Macron has warned if the Syrian regime uses chemical weapons during his presidency he will act unilaterally to punish it.

In May 2018, Emmanuel Macron condemned "the violence of Israeli armed forces" against Palestinians in Gaza border protests.

Emmanuel Macron has called for a peaceful solution during the 2017 North Korea crisis, though he agreed to work with US President Trump against North Korea.

Emmanuel Macron described the situation as "genocide" and "ethnic purification", and alluded to the prospect of UN-led intervention.

Emmanuel Macron has voiced support for the Saudi Arabian-led military campaign against Yemen's Shiite rebels.

Emmanuel Macron defended France's arms sales to the Saudi-led coalition.

Emmanuel Macron described as "extremely fruitful and positive" his first contacts with President Xi Jinping.

Emmanuel Macron expressed concerns over Turkey's "rash and dangerous" statements regarding the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war between the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Armenia, further stating that he was "extremely concerned by the warlike messages".

Emmanuel Macron was described by some as Europhile and federalist but he describes himself as "neither pro-European, eurosceptic nor a federalist in the classical sense", and his party as "the only pro-European political force in France".

When Emmanuel Macron served as economy minister he had suggested the Treaty could be scrapped if the UK left the European Union.

On 1 May 2017, Emmanuel Macron said the EU needs to reform or face Frexit.

Emmanuel Macron argued for institutional changes, initiatives to promote EU, along with new ventures in the technology, defence and energy sectors.

Emmanuel Macron's proposals included setting up a rapid reaction force working along with national armies while establishing a finance minister, budget and parliament for the Eurozone.

Emmanuel Macron called for a new tax on technology giants, an EU-wide asylum agency to deal with the refugee crisis, and changes to the Common Agricultural Policy.

In November 2019, Emmanuel Macron blocked EU accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia, proposing changes to EU Enlargement policy.

Critics accuse Emmanuel Macron of having ignored by his actions the democratic decision of the voters for power-political reasons, thus sacrificing the democratic principles of his own interests.

In July 2015, as economy minister, Emmanuel Macron stated in an interview that any Greece bailout package must ease their burden by including reductions in the country's overall debt.

Emmanuel Macron believes that the Greek and European leaders co-produced the Greek government-debt crisis, and that the agreement reached in summer 2015 between Greece and its creditors, notably driven by Francois Hollande, will not help Greece in dealing with the debt, while at the same time criticizing the International Monetary Fund.

Yanis Varoufakis, minister of finance in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras, praised Emmanuel Macron, calling him "the only French Minister in the Francois Hollande's administration that seemed to understand what was at stake in the Eurozone" and who, according to him, "tried to play the intermediary between us [Greece] and the troika of our creditors EC, IMF, ECB even if they don't allow him to play the role".

Emmanuel Macron said that the European Commission needs to do more to stop the influx of low-paid temporary workers from Central and Eastern Europe into France.

Emmanuel Macron supported the open-door policy toward migrants from the Middle East and Africa pursued by Angela Merkel in Germany during the 2017 election campaign and promoted tolerance towards immigrants and Muslims.

Emmanuel Macron expressed confidence in France's ability to absorb more immigrants and welcomed their arrival into Europe, asserting that the influx will have a positive economic impact.

Italian PM Giuseppe Conte accused France of hypocrisy after Emmanuel Macron said Italy was acting "irresponsibly" by refusing entry to migrants and suggested it had violated international maritime law.

Emmanuel Macron believes that the proposed reform bill on deprivation of citizenship for French-born and naturalized citizens convicted on terrorism charges was not a "concrete solution" and believes that "the endless prolongation of the state of emergency raises legitimate questions".

Emmanuel Macron calls for a restoration of community policing and considers that "the management of some major risks must be delegated to the associations' or the private sector".

Emmanuel Macron has endorsed proposals to make it mandatory for Internet companies to allow the government to access encrypted communications from customers.

Emmanuel Macron expressed deep regret at US President Trump's decision to take back US armed forces from Syria.

In October 2019, Emmanuel Macron warned that Turkey would be responsible for helping Islamic State to re-establish a Caliphate in Syria as he called on Turkey to stop its military offensive against Kurdish forces the north of Syria.

Emmanuel Macron expressed this opinion in the aftermath of the Volkswagen emissions scandal.

Nevertheless, in the multi-year energy program Emmanuel Macron committed to reduce the use of nuclear energy in France by 2035.

Emmanuel Macron criticized Donald Trump for pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord on 2 June 2017, and called for scientists to come to France in order to work together on climate change.

Emmanuel Macron said that "we have a duty to let everybody practice their religion with dignity".

Emmanuel Macron announced that the government would present a bill in December to strengthen a 1905 law that officially separated church and state in France.

Emmanuel Macron faced further backlash when after the murder of Samuel Paty, he defended the caricatures of Muhammad by Charlie Hebdo.

Emmanuel Macron supports stopping what he calls the "compartmentalisation of healthcare" by allowing private practitioners into public hospitals.

Emmanuel Macron supports investing money in medical science to develop new technology and find better ways to treat patients.

Emmanuel Macron wants to create a programme that forces schools to pay experienced teachers higher salaries and give them more educational freedom.

Emmanuel Macron wants to combat the issue of income inequality in schools by attempting to improve working-class schools and providing incentives to more well-off children as a way to persuade them into attending working-class schools.

Emmanuel Macron has referred to Germany's system as one that his government would follow when putting forward measures relating to vocational education.

On 2 October 2020, Emmanuel Macron announced his intention to ban homeschooling with medical exceptions by 2021, in order to address separatist Islamic indoctrination which he sees as being in conflict with the secular values of the French Republic.

In July 2017, while at a ceremony at the site of the Velodrome d'Hiver where 13,000 Jews had been rounded up for deportation to death camps in July 1942, Emmanuel Macron denounced his country's role in the Holocaust and the historical revisionism that denied France's responsibility for the 1942 Vel' d'Hiv Roundup and the eventual deportation of 76,000 Jews.

Emmanuel Macron said that unlike other countries, controversial statues of French people from the colonial period would not be removed.

Emmanuel Macron expressed gratitude for the result of the 2020 New Caledonian independence referendum, thanking New Caledonians for their "vote of confidence" in the Republic.

Emmanuel Macron acknowledged those who had backed independence of the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, calling for dialogue between all sides to map out the future of the region.

Emmanuel Macron supports raising the retirement age from 62 years to 64 years.

Emmanuel Macron is married to Brigitte Trogneux, 24 years his senior, and his former La Providence High School teacher in Amiens.

However, the couple reunited after Emmanuel Macron graduated, and were married in 2007.

Emmanuel Macron has three children from a previous marriage; he has no children of his own.

In 2007, Emmanuel Macron voted for Segolene Royal in the second round of the presidential election.

Emmanuel Macron plays the piano, having studied piano for ten years in his youth, and especially enjoys the work of Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt.

Emmanuel Macron received widespread media attention for his celebrations and his interactions with the Croatian president.

On 17 December 2020, Emmanuel Macron's office announced that he tested positive for COVID-19 and would self-isolate for seven days.

Emmanuel Macron had been administered a PCR test as soon as his symptoms had appeared.

On 8 June 2021, Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face during a visit to the town of Tain-l'Hermitage.

Emmanuel Macron was sentenced to four months of imprisonment plus a suspended sentence of fourteen months.