Five years ago, Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France. He stood for office on a platform of radical change and a departure from the status quo. He promised to reinvent the French state, revitalise its economy, and change the country in social terms. In foreign policy, Macron’s stated policy was no less bold. He gave blockbuster interviews to international magazines like Der Speigel, in which he argued for ‘heroic’ politics and foreign policy, for France to reinvent and reinvigorate the European Union, but also to be independent of the European and NATO line when necessary. Macron spo…