2024 promises to be a high-risk year for Gérald Darmanin. The Minister of the Interior, struggling at the end of 2023 with the controversy surrounding the immigration law, should not be idle for the year which begins. Among the major projects which will be closely scrutinized: that of the security of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games which will begin on July 26, the date of the opening ceremony which is already causing a lot of talk. A few weeks earlier, a major visit should take place on French soil. According to the revelations of JDDon newsstands this Sunday, December 31, the pressure could “go up another notch”because Joe Biden would be expected around June 6date of the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the landing of 1944.
According to the weekly, the event in which the American president should take part would be “In preparation”. And there is no question of failing or leaving things to chance, because if Jill Biden came to France last summerit was without her husband who has not made an official trip to France since his election to the White House in 2020. A little over a year ago, at the end of 2022, he is the president of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, who had traveled to the United States. The two men had displayed a great bond, despite differences. This trip was presented as “a diplomatic victory for the two Presidents in a dislocated world” in the columns of World by the Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, James M. Lindsay.
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A year and a half later, it would therefore be Joe Biden’s turn to go to France in June 2024. A new security challenge for Gérald Darmaninwhich was not spared in 2023, the year in which it had to organize the concomitant visits of King Charles III and Pope Francis last September. A challenge which had been succeeded as Emmanuel Macron had underlined during a television interview during which he had “congratulate the French”. “Because there are few countries in the world today that can address concomitant challenges of this nature”, he rejoiced in front of Anne-Claire Coudray and Laurent Delahousse. In addition to the visits of high-ranking personalities, in 2023 there had already been major sporting competitions such as the Rugby World Cup. See you in a few months to see if the Head of State and his Minister of the Interior are able to draw up such a positive assessment.
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