France was “the country of science, the Enlightenment and Louis Pasteur,” Emmanuel Macron said, when he announced that entry to restaurants and a range of other venues would become dependent on a “health passport”. The invocation of the valeurs of the Republic to justify public policy is very much Macron’s style. He relishes making interventions on the world stage in the grand style of French Republicanism.
Michel Barnier as France’s PM: are they having us on?
Brits who view the appointment of Barnier as a wind-up are flattering themselves. The present crisis is all about France.