It’s been five years since Emmanuel Macron’s famous Sorbonne speech, and now the French president has once again used the big EU stage to make his European policy ambitions clear. At the start of France’s EU Council Presidency, he spoke in favor of a sovereign Europe and a „common security order“ in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. There is certainly momentum for ambitious EU reform these days, writes Eric Bonse. In the long run, this could even apply to the reform of the Stability Pact – even if Macron has left this topic out of the equation for the time being.