Emmanuel Macron: The question remains over whether he's a friend or foe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : In truth the attempts by London and Paris to find ideas they agree on has always been undermined by the original sin in Mr Macron's eyes: Brexit.
63% :French newspaper Le Monde described the scathing Gallic reaction as "a way of expressing the disdain perceptible in the French capital eight months after Brexit towards the government of Boris Johnson, considered the 'stowaway' of the new alliance".
56% : Mr Macron had even reportedly claimed to aides that the UK Prime Minister admitted to him he has to "cater to his public opinion" by creating phoney wars against the French to mask difficulties supposedly caused by Brexit.
54% : The row was eventually sorted out with a new deal last December.
54% : Indeed after his election win Mr Macron appeared to throw an olive branch to the UK by suggesting it could become a member of a new type of "political European community" - a kind of "shadow EU" that would allow countries outside the European Union, including Ukraine and Britain, to join the "European core values".
49% : Even before his 2017 election, the French president had made his position on Britain's decision to leave the European Union abundantly clear.
29% : "Those who were responsible for Brexit, who said everything is possible and will be wonderful, have all scarpered.

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