Gael de Santis: Autonomous France or EU is not enough, they must be social

Gael de Santis is an international desk editor at L'Humanite - the leading French left-wing journal. He spoke to Cross-border Talks about the 2022 French presidential elections:
- what are the interests, which Macron and Le Pen represents, what are their political styles and essence;
- a class analysis of the results of the first and second round of the presidential elections;
- the French geopolitical position in Europe and the world during the 2nd term of Emmanuel Macron (an element of which is interest to engaging Russia, if the crisis in Ukraine ends within 1-2 years);
- the nature of French interest in Southeastern Europe: social dumping, anticorruption, common EU defense;
- internal and external challenges to Macron during his 2nd term.