Emmanuel Macron’s protégé has invited Britain to join a “United States of Europe” in a de facto reversal of Brexit.
Gabriel Attal, a contender to succeed Mr Macron in 2027, wants a group of perhaps eight or 10 countries to bind themselves together with common debt, common taxes and labour rules and, in effect, a single economy.
The bloc would operate under a directly elected president and be protected by France’s nuclear deterrent.
Mr Attal, who has previously argued that Britain should rejoin the EU, is now offering a route back into something considerably more integrated than the bloc it left.
“I hope that one day the United Kingdom will find its place again in this adventure, if it freely chooses to join it,” he said. » | Henry Samuel Paris Correspondent. James Crisp Europe Edito | Friday, September 18, 2026
This is music to my ears, of course. I never expected such encouraging news so late on a Friday night! God bless M. Attal! Vive la France ! Vive le Royaume-Uni ! Vive l'Union européenne — © Mark Alexander
