This Thursday evening at 8 p.m., Emmanuel Macron will present his wishes to the French for the year 2021. A balancing act for the Head of State, as there are many uncertainties for the coming months, because of the health crisis and economic.

Emmanuel Macron presents his wishes tonight at 8 p.m.

But how can we wish the French a happy new year when there are so many uncertainties about the future? 

The exercise is not easy.

The wishes of December 31 are always "results and perspectives".

On the balance sheet side, 2020 comes down to Covid-19, confinement, controversies over crisis management, battered economy, moral exhaustion of the French ... Not to mention terrorism, divisions in society, global warming, and reforms almost to the stop.

For a president who wanted to be a reformer above all, pensions were lost along the way.

In short, we lived a political year under curfew.

What about the outlook?

We have probably rarely been so in the dark on the eve of a new year, with an uncertain health situation.

Committing to a date for the end of the constraints would be perilous for the Head of State, between curfew and specter of reconfinement.

And the concerns for the economic and social climate are there.

The "whatever the cost" will not be able to last forever.

At one point, the shock absorbers, massive as they are, may not be enough to prevent unemployment and business failures.

But difficult to predict when this inevitable bad news will arrive, and to what extent. 

But the president must give hope?

Yes, it is an obligation.

The president must chart a course.

The vaccine is THE source of hope for overcoming the virus, unfortunately not in the short term, but in the medium term.

Emmanuel Macron is expected on this, given the rather slow start of the vaccination campaign.

He must succeed in giving confidence to skeptical French people, which is no small challenge.

Another priority: to regain momentum, despite everything, on the economic level.

By "relaunching the stimulus" in a way, because the 100 billion euro plan of September was hit by the second wave.

2020 was a year of crisis management.

Emmanuel Macron would like to make 2021 a "useful year of combat, recovery and ambition".

Especially since it is the last full year of the five-year term!

Yes, the very last useful year.

For the next wishes, we already know that everyone will have their eyes riveted on the presidential election of 2022. There are therefore twelve months left to pass reforms: with the law on separatism and measures for the environment.

Can other priorities arise?

In parallel with the management of emergencies linked to Covid and its consequences, which remain at the top of the pile?

Complicated to anticipate as long as you can't see the end of the tunnel.