French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged today, in his New Year’s message to the French people, that his decision to call early parliamentary elections in June 2024 had created more political instability in the country.

At the same time, he called on Europe to stop being “naive” in matters of trade and agriculture.

The outgoing year has been a tumultuous one for Macron, who in June suddenly called early elections, a decision that backfired on the French president, with the result of the parliamentary election yielding a fragmented National Assembly, with a large increase in the far-right and a decline in his power. French president.

“The dissolution of the National Assembly and early elections have so far caused greater divisions in the National Assembly than solutions for the French people,” “producing more instability than calm,” Macron said in his televised New Year’s Eve message this evening.

“I fully take my share of the responsibility,” Macron stressed, continuing his mea culpa. He estimated that 2025 should be the year of “collective recovery” to allow “stability” to come.

At the same time, the French president declared that “Europeans must stop being naive” in matters of trade and agriculture, calling for an “awakening” against “legislation” that is “dictated by others”.

“Say no to trade laws, laws dictated by others, laws we alone must obey. Say no to everything that makes us dependent on others without giving back and without preparing our own future,” the president said.

“Instead, we need a European awakening, a scientific, intellectual, technological, industrial awakening, an agricultural, energy and ecological awakening,” he added. “To do this, we need to move faster, make our decisions faster, stronger as Europeans, simplify our rules” and “invest more”, he added.