Macron visit: how Paris is newly resurgent, despite Trump’s ‘Jim’

Macron’s election in May 2017 lifted French business and consumer confidence to record levels. And the impact continues to be felt today in terms of tourism, the property market, and law and order.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron to Centre Block on June 7 during Mr. Macron's visit to Canada before the G7 summit in La Malbaie, Que.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY RICHARD OGIER

June 8, 2018

Who remembers Jim, United States President Donald Trump’s elusive, go-to guy on all things Paris? Never accorded a surname by the White House, no reporter could trace him, but “Jim” gained a degree of notoriety for advising Trump against visiting the City of Light, because lax immigration pol...

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