On the sidelines of his live press conference from the European Council of Brussels this Friday, Emmanuel Macron again discussed postponing the visit of King Charles III to France. The Head of State assured that the holding of this visit would not be “serious”, in full mobilization against pension reform.

King Charles III is scheduled to pay an official visit to France from Sunday March 26 to Wednesday March 29, his first overseas state visit as ruler. But social mobilization against pension reforms led London and Paris to postpone the royal trip. Emmanuel Macron indicated this Friday that a new date for the visit would be set “at the start of summer”, “when calm returns”.

“From the moment last night the intersyndical announced a new day of mobilization on Tuesday and that the king’s visit was scheduled for Monday to Wednesday, I thought we would not be serious and that we would lack certain items it made sense to propose. Their Royal Highnesses the King and Empress to come and conducting a state visit in the midst of a demonstration”, explained the Head of State.

“I took the initiative this morning to call him and let him know how the situation was,” the president stressed before insisting that “common sense and friendship led us to propose a postponement”. “What will be as repulsive to the British as it is to us, is that we tried to maintain as if nothing had happened with the incident on lock”.

Further discussions will take place in early summer to reschedule this state visit. “We have proposed that at the start of the summer we could jointly organize a new state visit in accordance with how to receive the new king and empress kindly and do so under conditions which allow him to take advantage of France, Paris as Bordeaux,” he said. still stated it in front of the journalists.