1. Emmanuel Macron has been a member of Renaissance since he founded it in 2016.
115 Facts About Emmanuel Macron
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Emmanuel Macron completed a master's degree in public affairs at Sciences Po and graduated from the in 2004.
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Emmanuel Macron resigned in 2016, to launch his 2017 presidential campaign.
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Emmanuel Macron was elected to a second term in the 2022 presidential election, again defeating Le Pen, becoming the first French presidential candidate to win reelection since Jacques Chirac in 2002.
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In 2024, Emmanuel Macron appointed Gabriel Attal as Prime Minister, after a government crisis.
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Two months afterwards, Emmanuel Macron appointed Michel Barnier, a conservative and former chief Brexit negotiator, as Prime Minister.
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Only three months in, Barnier was toppled by a historic vote of no confidence, prompting Emmanuel Macron to replace him with centrist veteran Francois Bayrou.
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Emmanuel Macron continued Operation Chammal in the war against the Islamic State and joined in the international condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Emmanuel Macron is the son of Francoise Macron, a physician, and Jean-Michel Macron, professor of neurology at the University of Picardy.
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Emmanuel Macron has two siblings, Laurent, born in 1979, and Estelle, born in 1982.
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Emmanuel Macron commonly visited Bagneres-de-Bigorre to visit his grandmother Germaine, whom he called "Manette".
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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".
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Emmanuel Macron's parents sent him 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.
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In Paris, Emmanuel Macron twice failed to gain entry to the Ecole normale superieure.
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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.
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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.
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Emmanuel Macron became a member of the editorial board of the literary magazine Esprit.
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Emmanuel Macron did not perform national service because he was pursuing his graduate studies.
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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, training at the French Embassy in Nigeria and at the prefecture of Oise before graduating in 2004.
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Emmanuel Macron was mentored by Jean-Pierre Jouyet, the then-head of the IGF.
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Emmanuel Macron was originally offered the job by Francois Henrot.
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Emmanuel Macron formed a relationship with Alain Minc, a businessman on the supervisory board of Le Monde.
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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.
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In February 2012, Emmanuel Macron advised businessman Philippe Tillous-Borde, the CEO of the Avril Group.
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Emmanuel Macron met Francois Hollande through Jean-Pierre Jouyet in 2006 and joined his staff in 2010.
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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; however, his application was declined.
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Emmanuel Macron was offered the chance to be the deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister Francois Fillon in 2010, though he declined.
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On 15 May 2012, Emmanuel Macron became the deputy secretary-general of the Elysee, a senior role in President Francois Hollande's staff.
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Emmanuel Macron tried to hold back the large tax increases on the highest earners that were planned by the government.
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On 10 June 2014, it was announced that Emmanuel Macron had resigned from his role and was replaced by Laurence Boone.
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Jouyet said that Emmanuel Macron left to "continue personal aspirations" and create his own financial consultancy firm.
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Emmanuel Macron was appointed as the Minister of Economics and Industry in the second Valls Cabinet on 26 August 2014, replacing Arnaud Montebourg.
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Emmanuel Macron was the youngest Minister of Economics since Valery Giscard d'Estaing in 1962.
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Emmanuel Macron was branded by the media as the "Anti-Montebourg" due to being pro-EU and much more liberal, while Montebourg was eurosceptic and left-wing.
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Emmanuel Macron was widely criticized for being unable to prevent the closing down of an Ecopla factory in Isere.
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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.
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Emmanuel Macron threatened to leave Manuel Valls' second government over the proposed removal of dual-nationality from terrorists.
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Emmanuel Macron took various foreign trips, including one to Israel where he spoke on the advancement of digital technology.
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Emmanuel Macron was given the chance to help draft into the El Khomri law and put specific parts of "Emmanuel Macron 2" into the law though El Khomri was able to overturn these with the help of other ministers.
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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.
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LCI reported that Emmanuel Macron was trying to take back the symbol of Joan of Arc from the far-right.
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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.
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On 30 August 2016, Emmanuel Macron resigned from the government ahead of the 2017 presidential election, to devote himself to his En Marche movement.
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Emmanuel Macron initially planned to leave after the cancellation of his "Macron 2" law but decided to stay on temporarily after a meeting with President Francois Hollande.
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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 identify patterns in his fundraising indicating he would run.
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In October 2016, Emmanuel Macron criticized Hollande's goal of being a "normal" president, saying that France needed a more "Jupiterian presidency".
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On 16 November 2016, Emmanuel Macron formally declared his candidacy for the French presidency after months of speculation.
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Shortly after announcing his run, Jean-Christophe Cambadelis and Manuel Valls both asked Emmanuel Macron to run in the Socialist Party presidential primary, which he ultimately refused to do.
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Emmanuel Macron's campaign, headed by French economist Sophie Ferracci, announced in December 2016 that it had raised 3.7 million euros in donations, three times the budget of then-front runner Alain Juppe.
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Emmanuel Macron called the allegations "defamatory" and said that none of the ministerial budget had been spent on his party.
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Francois Bayrou, with whom Emmanuel Macron had been compared, announced he was not going to stand in the presidential election and instead formed an electoral alliance with Emmanuel Macron, whose poll ratings began to rise.
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On 23 April 2017, Emmanuel Macron received the most votes in the first round of the presidential election, with more than 8 million votes and faced Marine Le Pen in the second round, with the support of former candidates Francois Fillon and Benoit Hamon and the sitting president Francois Hollande.
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Emmanuel Macron's campaign had previously been presented a report in March 2017 by the Japanese cyber security firm Trend Micro detailing how En Marche had been the target of phishing attacks.
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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.
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Emmanuel Macron is the first president of France born after the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958.
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On 3 July 2020, Emmanuel Macron appointed the centre-right Jean Castex as the Prime Minister of France.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to speed up asylum applications and deportations but give refugees better housing.
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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.
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In February 2018, Emmanuel Macron announced a plan to offer voluntary redundancy in an attempt to further cut jobs from the French civil service.
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In December 2019, Emmanuel Macron announced that he would scrap the 20th-century pension system and introduce a single national pension system managed by the state.
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In January 2020, after weeks of public transport shutdown and vandalism across Paris against the new pension plan, Emmanuel Macron compromised on the plan by revising the retirement age.
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However, on 16 March 2020, Emmanuel Macron announced that the draft legislation would be pulled as France went into lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Later that day Emmanuel Macron stated that 13 terror plots had been foiled since early 2017.
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Emmanuel Macron attended the 2017 Brussels summit on 25 May 2017, his first NATO summit as president of France.
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On 29 May 2017, Emmanuel Macron met with Vladimir Putin at the Palace of Versailles.
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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".
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Emmanuel Macron urged cooperation in the conflict against ISIS and warned that France would respond with force in Syria if chemical weapons were used.
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Emmanuel Macron urged a tough international stance to pressure North Korea into negotiations, on the same day it fired a missile over Japan.
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Emmanuel Macron affirmed his support for the Iranian nuclear deal and criticized Venezuela's government as a "dictatorship".
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Emmanuel Macron remarked that larger budget, integrated capital markets, effective defence policy and quick decision-making held the key for Europe.
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Emmanuel Macron added that reliance on NATO and especially the US and the UK was not good for Europe, and a dialogue must be established with Russia.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Emmanuel Macron then formed a new government on 20 May 2022.
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In March 2023, Emmanuel Macron's government passed a law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, partly bypassing Parliament by again resorting to Article 49.3 to break the parliamentary deadlock.
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On 20 March 2023, Emmanuel Macron's cabinet, headed by Prime minister Borne, survived a cross-party motion of no-confidence by only nine votes, the slimmest margin for such a vote since 1992.
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On 20 July 2023, Emmanuel Macron carried out a government reshuffle at the end of the "hundred days of appeasement and action" he called for in April 2023 following the violent protests surrounding the passage of his pension system reform.
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In February 2023, Emmanuel Macron's government introduced an immigration and asylum bill aimed at removing deportation safeguards, fast-tracking asylum application process and immigration litigation, while facilitating legalization of undocumented workers.
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On 11 December 2023, the "flagship" immigration bill introduced by Emmanuel Macron's government was unexpectedly defeated after the narrow passage of a motion for preliminary dismissal in the National Assembly.
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Health Minister Aurelien Rousseau, whom Emmanuel Macron had appointed to the government only six months earlier, resigned shortly after the vote.
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On 4 March 2024, a joint session of the French Parliament passed a constitutional amendment supported by Emmanuel Macron to protect abortion as a 'guaranteed freedom' in the Constitution.
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In January 2024, in the wake of the government crisis produced by the passage of the 'controversial' immigration bill, Emmanuel Macron requested Prime minister Elisabeth Borne to resign and subsequently replaced her by Education minister Gabriel Attal, making him both the youngest head of government in French history and the first openly gay man ever to hold the job.
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Exit polls released shortly after 8pm on 30 June suggested the RN-led alliance was on course to win either a plurality of seats or an outright majority in the second round, while Emmanuel Macron's coalition was set to lose at least half of the seats it won in 2022.
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Emmanuel Macron's grouping lost both 86 seats and its status as the largest parliamentary bloc while the RN-led alliance, though dramatically underperforming the polls, still managed to make significant gains, eventually becoming the largest single party in the new National Assembly.
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Barnier resigned, but Emmanuel Macron vowed to stay in office until the end of his term.
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Emmanuel Macron accepted the resignation of Barnier but vowed to remain in office until the end of his term.
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Emmanuel Macron blamed an alliance of 'extreme left and extreme right' for the collapse of the French government.
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On 16 June 2022, Emmanuel Macron visited Ukraine alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
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Emmanuel Macron met with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and expressed "European Unity" for Ukraine.
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Emmanuel Macron said that the nations that remained neutral in the Russo-Ukrainian War made a historic mistake and were complicit in the new imperialism.
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On 23 October 2022, Emmanuel Macron became the first foreign leader to meet new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, just a day after she and her ministers were sworn into office.
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Emmanuel Macron argued that Europe should focus on boosting its own defence industries and additionally reduce its dependence on the United States dollar.
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On 31 May 2023 Emmanuel Macron visited the GLOBSEC forum in Bratislava, where he again delivered a speech on European sovereignty.
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On 12 June 2023, Emmanuel Macron promised to deliver more ammunition, weapons and armed vehicles to help Ukrainian forces with the ongoing counter-offensive to liberate Russian-occupied southeastern Ukraine.
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In June 2023 Emmanuel Macron hosted a global climate finance conference described by many as the new Bretton Woods Conference.
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Emmanuel Macron supported the idea, but a climate activist from Uganda remarked that the promises were meaningless if at the same time Emmanuel Macron supported projects like the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, a major threat to the climate and to the drinking water of 40 million people.
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At the summit Emmanuel Macron proposed an international taxation system and debt restructuring but stressed it can have an effect only with international cooperation.
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In July 2023, Macron postponed his planned state visit to Germany due to the ongoing Nahel M riots.
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In February 2024, during a meeting with other European states, Emmanuel Macron generated controversy by suggesting sending ground troops to Ukraine.
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On 28 May 2024, Emmanuel Macron gave Ukraine permission to use SCALP EG missiles against targets on Russian soil.
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On 24 February 2025, during a meeting with US President Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron said that a truce between Ukraine and Russia could be agreed in the coming weeks.
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In February 2025, Emmanuel Macron characterised Russia as an "existential threat" to Europe, convening a special meeting in Paris to coordinate European responses under the Weimar+ framework.
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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 from opposition lawmakers for a parliamentary inquiry.
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Emmanuel Macron swore the Constitution of Andorra through Strzoda in an act that took place on 15 June 2017 in Casa de la Vall.
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Emmanuel Macron is married to Brigitte Trogneux, his former La Providence high school teacher in Amiens close to 25 years his senior.
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The couple reunited after Emmanuel Macron graduated, and were married in 2007.
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Emmanuel Macron has three children from a previous marriage; he has no children of his own.
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In 2007, Emmanuel Macron voted for Segolene Royal in the second round of the presidential election.
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Emmanuel Macron plays the piano, and studied piano for ten years in his youth.
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Emmanuel Macron especially enjoys the work of Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt.
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Emmanuel Macron received widespread media attention for his celebrations and his interactions with the Croatian president.