Macron could become one of Trump's greatest assets - NEWS TODAY
Channel: NEWS TODAY
Date: 2017-09-30

Macron could become one of Trump's greatest assets - NEWS TODAY

Donald Trump should be clicking his heels together this week: Europe suddenly looks like it might be ready to move very much in his direction.

First, in Germany's national elections on Sunday, the far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) surged from 0 to 94 seats in the 709-seat Bundestag (or parliament) -- their first seats since the end of German fascism [in 1945] and the arrival of democracy in 1949. 

Then, two days later, French President Emmanuel Macron, in a landmark speech outlining his vision of a New Europe, sought to seize the leadership role on the continent from Germany's tenuously re-elected chancellor Angela Merkel.
There's been no disguising the frosty atmosphere between Merkel and Trump ever since the first snubbed handshake in the Oval Office in March.
From climate change to Korea to immigration, the two leaders of their respective continents have collided and at best agreed to disagree -- often quite publicly. At the same time, Macron and Trump have become best buddies, the American President even lusting after a military parade down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue after he marveled at France's Bastille Day festivities while sitting at Macron's side in Paris.

But now, Merkel finds herself on the ropes. The parliamentary coalition that got her through her third term as chancellor has come unglued at the hands of a right-wing surge in Germany.
The nation has been divided by the welcome mat set out by Merkel for some one million Middle East refugees -- and terrorist incidents that have killed and maimed scores in the past two years.
Now, Merkel is faced with the unenviable task of assembling a new coalition without her principal partner of recent years, the Social Democrats, who having themselves lost 40 seats in the Bundestag in their worst election showing since 1949, announced on election night they would not join Merkel's party in government, instead opting to become the leading opposition movement in the Bundestag.
In turn, Macron didn't waste any time promoting his own vision of Europe.
A master of political stagecraft, Macron chose for his speech the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne, the great French university dating to 1257.

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