Slawomir Sierakowski: France’s Emmanuel Macron risks political future if he becomes too ambitious

You can be talented, handsome, rhetorically skilled, and politically brave, and yet suffer for it. In the long run, prudence and restraint are crucial ingredients of successful leadership, and it is precisely these two qualities that, up to now, French president Emmanuel Macron appears to lack.

Macron wants to lead the EU into the 21st century. But he will succeed only if he does not go too far.