France: Trip Monday and Macron

france: He's expected to name a prime minister imminently, and to show his commitment to reviving European unity, according to The Chronicle Herald. Macron takes his first presidential trip Monday to Berlin to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel. Macron's presidency began with a visit to troops wounded in overseas combat a reminder of France's large global military presence and role in fighting extremists from Syria to Africa. In a lofty but lucid inaugural speech, Macron vowed to lift France out of its sense of decline and lost purpose, and seize again its place in the world. The division and fractures across our society must be overcome ... because the world expects us to be strong, solid, clairvoyant. The time has come for France to rise up to the occasion. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.