- Emmanuel Macron is a pro-Europe liberal, who promised to keep France’s borders and society open
- Modi and Macron managed to single-handedly demolish the opposition
- Macron’s few weeks old party, La Republique En Marche is set to get a crushing majoring in Parliament’s lower house
- France and India are committed to bringing electricity to millions of families in the poorest nations
- US exiting the Paris Treaty lent a sense of urgency to Modi and Macron to renew their nations’ commitments
- Climate change and terror are threats facing the globe, which are being felt in equal measure
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rapid visit to France on the last leg of his 4-nation tour of Europe brought the two leaders together for the first time since Macron shook the political landscape in France to claim the throne.
Less than three weeks after the inauguration of a new President and less than a week before he faces his first Parliamentary election to cobble together a governing majority for his term is hardly an appropriate time for a visit by the leader of a country that is an important strategic and business partner.
This was the scenario facing French President Emmanuel Macron as he prepared to receive Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Paris for the first ever meeting between the two leaders. Both of them have redefined politics in their respective countries and caused a major upheaval amongst their opponents.