Sophie Pedder
@PedderSophie · joined 20 Apr 2012
Paris Bureau Chief, The Economist. Author of Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation (Bloomsbury 2018) https://t.co/wobZMXbZ8M
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Emmanuel Macron’s reply to @Number10cat, who stood guard outside Number 10 while he was in talks with Andy Burnham ⬇️ https://t.co/FCuau2j6rC
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Emmanuel Macron becomes the first foreign leader to meet Andy Burnham at Downing Street since he became prime minister
The love-bombing continues
🇫🇷🇬🇧 https://t.co/SQMP33ZRdh
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What a night. When royalty and the republic, politics and culture, overcome distrust and defeatism and make it happen. Thank you 🇫🇷 ! https://t.co/y9oGaQTuHj
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Merci la 🇫🇷 ! https://t.co/vQBkxjZnVO
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@PedderSophie @TheEconomist How about that horny dragon fiction headline? looks more interesting that the EU fantasy of Macron
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Finally, the cover leader in @TheEconomist this week
https://t.co/fmsQxw1GgM
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The interview with Macron took place (in French) on April 29th at the Elysée Palace. The full transcript is available in English and French below, as is the cover leader
https://t.co/ObdA2xtDPa
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Faced with a dire potential outcome, the spirit of defeat "means two things: you get used to it and you stop fighting". "Politics isn’t about reading polls. It’s a fight, it’s about ideas, about convictions." The warning is dark, the president combative: “I’m still an optimist!”
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Threat 3) is nationalism. Macron suggests that the best way to grasp the risk today is to re-read Marc Bloch. “Strange Defeat”, about the fall of France in 1940, accused complacent, short-sighted elites of resignation. "What kills me, in 🇫🇷 as in Europe, is the spirit of defeat"
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Ahead of the state visit to France by Xi Jinping on May 6-7 Macron wants to engage China on matters of peace and the planet. But he will have a tough message on reciprocal trade and tariffs. Nobody else respects the old rules, including America, so how can Europe?
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Threat 2) is to Europe’s ability to guarantee its future prosperity, from the twin shock of accelerating technology and China. Macron worries that Europe will fall behind fatally if it doesn’t today make the right massive investments, esp in clean tech and disruptive innovation
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Although Macron clearly still thinks Brexit was a disaster -- “Brexit has impoverished the UK” and “done nothing to resolve immigration in the UK” -- he is now reaching out to the UK, both for far deeper bilateral and joint European defence and security cooperation
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There is “no question of brushing NATO aside”, Macron said. But Europe, in line with his longstanding project, has to “get ready to protect ourselves”. This is a hedge against future US disengagement and a way “to lighten the American burden”. Europe is “not reduced to the EU”
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Macron wants to start a discussion at the EPC summit in 🇬🇧in July about a new European “security framework”. It needs to look at threats, capabilities and production, and focus on geography not institutions. He'll also raise the question of extending France’s nuclear deterrent
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Macron stands by his refusal to rule out sending ground forces to help Ukraine. “If the Russians were to break through the front lines, if there were a Ukrainian request - which is not the case today - we would legitimately have to ask ourselves this question.”
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Europe faces a triple threat
1) to its security, mainly from Russia, which is systematically using “aggression in all known domains of conflict.” If 🇷🇺wins in 🇺🇦, “who can pretend that it will stop there?” Moldova, Romania, Poland, Lithuania and any neighbour could be vulnerable
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Speaking days after his speech at the Sorbonne, in which he first said “our Europe can die”, Macron spoke with an even greater sense of urgency. “Things can fall apart very fast”, he said, and the end can be “brutal”
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In a major new interview with The Economist, five years after he told us about the “brain death” of NATO, Emmanuel Macron explains why he thinks Europe is in mortal danger, and what it can do about this
In @TheEconomist
https://t.co/iBSTqX7MNP https://t.co/cr2snM9Q5t
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Against accounts of the same size
4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views17 972this account966median for 10K–100K
Reach, %30.81%this account3.66%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %4.04%this account1.51%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 17 972 | 966 | 18.6× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 30.81% | 3.66% | 8.42× |
| Engagement rate | 4.04% | 1.51% | 2.67× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.51%.
What the audience does
Likes77.5%7 180 in total
Reposts13.3%1 236 in total
Replies2.6%245 in total
Bookmarks6.5%604 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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