Euronews: 2024 - worst year in Macron's career

The year 2024 has become one of the most unsuccessful in the political career of French President Emmanuel Macron, reads an article by Euronews on winners and losers of 2024, Report informs.

It is noted that political and economic difficulties are putting his career at risk.

"By any account, France’s president had a catastrophic year. June EU elections saw his far-right rivals the National Rally surge to take 30 out of 81 seats; the snap elections he then called led to the loss of his centrist majority in the National Assembly, too.

A first attempt to form a government, under centre-right former EU Commissioner Michel Barnier, collapsed as he attempted to seek consensus on a 2025 budget. It’s not clear his successor, Macronist François Bayrou, will fare better – though Paris is under pressure from Brussels to slash one of the highest deficits in the eurozone.

Once seen as among the strongest and most pro-European of national leaders, Macron now seems set to be a lame duck," reads the article.