Michel Barnier: “I will be French president to avoid another Brexit. And save Europe”

LONDON. “Don’t say ‘if I will be the president’. Because I will be the new French president. I took the field to avoid another Brexit, in Europe and in France ”. Michel Barnier was an irreducible European chief negotiator in the complicated marathon of the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU, the bugbear of British Eurosceptics. Now, at 70, he’s the possible Republican candidate against Emmanuel Macron in next year’s presidential election in France, and he’s in London to present his book, indeed, My secret Brexit diary, “My secret Brexit diary”, published in England by Polity Books.