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Emmanuel Macron [1977-0] French

Rank: 101
Politician, Former French Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French senior civil servant, politician and former investment banker. On 26 August 2014 he was appointed as the Minister of Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs in the Second Valls Government.

Courage, Equality, Independence, Romantic

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Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.		101
The refugee crisis shows we can't be isolated from the world's geopolitical troubles.		102
We're not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.		103
To create greater convergence, we need more intergration.		104
You can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage.		105
Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.		106
A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.		107
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.		108
If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s interest.		109
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.		110
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.		111
Without investment, you cannot have jobs.		112
Historically speaking, the French economy was largely driven by the demand side.		113
France has to reform, to recover, and get more competitiveness.		114
What we need is much more flexibility for the labour markets.		115
France has to accelerate in terms of reform.		116
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.		117
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.	Equality	118
If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.		119
The status quo leads to self-destruction.		120
I am not a socialist.		121
I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art.		122
The best way to afford a suit is to work.		123
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.		124
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.		125
We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.		126
Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that's the mistake of Brexit that other people make.		201
If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.		202
Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?		203
The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.		204
I am a newcomer. I want to remain a newcomer. That is my DNA.		205
We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.		206
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.		207
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.		208
What we need is a common goal for more Europe.		209
France is back.		210
We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.		211
The doctors, whether based in Brussels or Paris, draw the same conclusions and write the same prescriptions.		212
Europe's younger generation has only experienced austerity.		213
We have a huge responsibility to make sure that Europe remains a prosperous and peaceful continent.		214
The state has an offensive and defensive role to play as promoter of industrial policies, as regulator and as shareholder.		215
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.	Romantic	216
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.		217
I want France to become the European hub for R&D.		218
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.		219
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.		220
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.		221
I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.		222
We back Hinkley Point project. It's very important for France; it's very important for the nuclear sector and EDF.		223
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.		224
I push reforms. I tell the truth to people, even when it's tough for the country.		225
Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.		226
I'm not a movie star, and I don't want to become a movie star.		301
We need young Frenchmen who want to become billionaires.		302
We've created rigidities at the entrance point in artisanal occupations.		303
Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.	Courage	304
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.		305
We should not replicate the situation where one country is in a situation to hijack the rest of Europe because they organize a referendum.		306
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.		307
Even if the Brits decide to remain, we will have to avoid a contagion on other countries.		308
I have a vision of my country, and I cannot sit and watch things pass by.		309
I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.	Independence	310
I come all wreathed in a reputation the press has made for me. Judge me on my actions. That's all that counts.		311
We have a lack of growth in Europe, in eurozone, and in France, and we are struggling hard to recover and restore this growth.		312
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.		313
E.U. is the first global domestic market.		314
We have to breathe new life into Europe.		315
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.		316
To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.		317
Consolidation means less equipment, less networks, and less jobs.		318
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.		319
My priority is my economy minister mandate and to create momentum.		320
I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.		321
In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.		322
We will open a new bunch of reforms regarding the labor market to make it simpler and adaptable, more flexible.		323
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.		324
When the president and the prime minister decide to implement reforms, they have all the measures they need to pass them and enforce them.		325
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.		326
When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.		401
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.		402
We can't fix the real problems if we only cauterize and don't treat the roots of evil.		403
We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.		404
My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.		405
We have no choice but to reform this country.		406
France is a strong, wealthy country.		407
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.		408
We have to shift the social model from a lot of formal protections toward loosening bottlenecks in the economy.		409
I have decided to create a new political movement.		410
I'm in a left-wing government, unashamedly... but I also want to work with people from the Right who commit to the same values.		411
We can't have our industry progressively destroyed by cheap Chinese imports.		412
I don't want to create a too-big-to-fail player.		413
If I were to reason like those who roll out red carpets, I would say we might have some repatriations from the City of London.		414
I realised how much the system did not want to change.		415
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.		416
We have to accept the idea that Europe will be made on a two-speed basis, with a union based on solidarity and differentiation.		417
The 28-member Europe must be simpler, clearer, more efficient, and continue to advance on digital and energy issues.		418
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.		419
We have to reconcile Europeans with Europe.		420
I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.		421

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