Our security and the proper functioning of our democracies must never be assumed as guaranteed, he stressed in the traditional message of the heads of State on December 31.

Regarding the European Union, he pointed out that it must abandon “naivety” and say no to “trade laws dictated by others.”

Macron also called on the French people for unity and solidarity, from the perspective that the impossible does not exist.

In this regard, he recalled the successful celebration of the Paris Olympic Games and the recent reopening of the Notre-Dame cathedral, partially destroyed by a fire in April 2019.

Mentioning a very tense year in domestic politics, Macron acknowledged that dissolving the National Assembly brought more divisions than solutions.

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