As the president on France, Emmanuel Macron, which is a French politician serving as the president of France since 2017 made several reforms in France in favor of his roles as a leader that would certainly highlight the name France as a country within the European Union and as a whole. The reforms he made in all aspects of the political administration in France would be both good and bad as people would certainly have different opinions on his presidency, considering the fact that he is the youngest person ever to became president and having a rather broad political background .
Having grown up in a well off family that contributed to the nation for quite a while, Macron began his political career as the Minister of Economy and Finance in 2014 , having earn his reputation in service to his nation even way back then. His early careers, the ups and downs in his life would certainly gave him an insight on the reforms he was going to make in France once he obtain office as the president of France. The troubles face by France and the European Union had been in his concern for quite a while and seemingly the chances of him to make things right for his people are higher now that he held an important position in the society that some would say give more strength to France.
The first thing he did when became president was to introduce domestic changes in France that ranges from laws, taxes, labor managements as well as public the strengthening of law enforcements agencies. Macron aimed to have a government based decision making via a consensus and systematic approach in it where political leaders or ministers in France would agree on some changes, for the good, in a manner where it would benefits the populations as well as their reputations. Unemployment came to his interest due to the main reason that the cause of major unemployment in France is because of the employment of cheap labor from Eastern Europe that led to less chances of local French people to be hired by local companies. Macron named this process as social dumping where companies would hire workers from Eastern Europe, pay them low wages thus saving loads of money whereas if they employed local workers, they have to pay more because of the Labor policy .
With Macron’s Labor minister overlooking the entire process, Macron proposed for a reform to reshape the labor codes that exists I France that is known as the Code du Travail, as his first step to combat the rise of unemployment in France that would set back its economy. In the General Assembly, the proposal was approved but it also saw some resistance from domestic companies because it would be costly for them to hire local workers . For example, the General Confederation of Labor was not ready to comply with the reforms as they see it as not beneficial to them while the French Democratic Confederation of Labor is more than ready to works with him in the reformed labor decrees .
With the decrees signed and sealed, France saw a massive drop in unemployment in history since 2001 with a rate that dropped to 1.8% . With what he have done, this gave promising hoe to the local population that Macron could eventually improves any areas of interest in France be it political, economic or social aspects.
Another part of his rectification is the introduction of France annual budgeting in September 2017 in which he reduces taxes and big spending to lay down the public deficit with amounted to 1.5% of the wealth of the population and exceeds a total of 1.3 million Euros before it was presented. He wanted the France budgeting and the lay off to be inline with the European Union fiscal economy laws . He mostly concentrated on the total value of personal assets and have personal liabilities cut off, for what it is known for as wealth tax . In doing so, he accomplish what he have in mind to make the French economic more sufficient and to gain mass support from the mass population for his reputation internally and externally.
Other than that, in June 2018, Macron stated that the migrant issues face in Europe has become a political crisis that needs immediate attention from leaders of the European Union as it would lead to heated debates, negotiations and discussion failures and set back the rest of the European Union . In reinvigorating French politics, Macron stated in the 2017 Brussels Summit that, as the president of France and the political power bestowed upon him, he express something definitely that in the hope of reshaping its political system and making it contribute more globally, he urged for the nations in the European Union to fight terrorism end to end especially against ISIS .
He stated that France would be more than ready to respond to any threat imposed by its enemies in Syria if they used more conventional warfare tactics such as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons and technologies . An example Macron’s move on fighting the Global War on Terrorism is by having a political discussion on the chemical attacks in Syria which gained the support of the senate by approving to have the French military to launch an airstrike in Syria together with the United States and the United Kingdom by its side .
With that being done by Macron, it proves the point that he is ready for a joint force with other nations in standing against terrorism, whether it will be internal attacks or external disturbances and prepare for a strong political and diplomacy relationships with other European Union nations or the global world in general to bring about French politics to a whole new level. Furthermore, his play his role in the European Union in the hope that he could make changes in France that would benefit the European Union as a whole. To achieve political successes, the economy of France is one of the issues that needed attention as well because most of it involves politics anyways.
Macron has advocated for an idealized system where prices of goods should be free from the intervention of the government and would be based on the preferences of the sellers and the consumers . This would in turn gives a more flexibility in running businesses and big corporation in working with the government for the purpose of reinforcements by big businesses and intellectuals. He long for a collective solidarity where, as mentioned earlier, a general consensus an agreement should be made by all so that it could benefit everyone instead of just one side of the party. Macron aimed to, as the president of France, to serve the interest of the public .
The main issue highlighted by Macron if the matters in which transcending party politics between the left and right wing division of diplomatic relationship by suggesting that the real problematic point to be discussed and changed in his government is between the people wanting progressiveness and people who wanted to be and remain conservatives. Although he opposed allegations of him being labeled as a populist, he would obviously wanted support not only for himself but also for France and its people as a means of invigorating its politics even more. .