Emmanuel Macron has warned of tough times ahead after securing victory in the French presidential elections. “I’m aware that this vote puts me under obligation for the years ahead,” the re-elected president told a crowd of supporters gathered near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. “The years ahead will certainly be difficult, but they will be historic, and we will have to write them together for the coming generations,” Macron said. “You have opted for a humanist, republican and ecological project based on work and creativity, a project to liberate our academic, cultural and entrepreneurial strengths…