Post Brexit who is going to be the thought leader for the EU and perhaps Europe. Macron, perhaps but I doubt it!

Each new French President says change and yet the power base of the people stop them!

https://www.ft.com/content/d3466998-4299-11e8-93cf-67ac3a6482fd


"His grand project might fail. Its very method betrays France southernness: a boss telling hostile workers what he will do is a spectacle familiar from southern Europe, where working relations tend to be vertical and distrustful, unlike in the co-operative north. Albrecht Sonntag, a German sociologist at the ESSCA School of Management in Angers, says,The lubricator of Scandinavian-style public life is trust. But we don�t have it in Latin public life. Macron with his faith in the state and especially the executive as the agent of change is quintessentially French. Yet his dream for France is Scandinavia with Mediterranean beaches."


Journalist speak for free market economics, open and evolving, they dare not say who else does this already, the benefits and the price paid for moral hazard and global competitiveness!