Emmanuel Macron keeps "the hope of celebrating Christmas with his family"

Emmanuel Macron in December 2019, at the Elysée.

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“Keep the hope of celebrating Christmas and the end of the year holidays as a family.

"During his speech this Wednesday evening, Emmanuel Macron slipped that he cultivated" the hope of celebrating with his family this so precious moment of Christmas and the end of the year celebrations ".

The president announced a national lockdown from Friday until December 1.

“I ask for a very big effort, let's hold it with a lot of rigor for two weeks.

If within a fortnight we have better control of the situation, we will then be able to reassess things and hope to open certain businesses, in particular in this so important period before the Christmas holidays, ”said Emmanuel Macron.

Earlier in the evening, Angela Merkel announced drastic measures to stem the second wave of the coronavirus in Germany, including the one-month closure of restaurants and leisure facilities, along with aid of up to ten billion euros for allow the economy to cushion the shock.

For politicians, it is a question of saving the end of the year holidays and this, when most of the Christmas markets, so dear to the Germans, have been canceled due to the pandemic.

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