Overview

• Emmanuel Macron's televised address on March 5, 2025, drew 15.1 million viewers, representing 71.6% of the total television audience at the time.
• The 15-minute speech, broadcast across multiple major networks, focused on international developments and their implications for Europe and Ukraine.
• Macron highlighted a 'new era' marked by a closer relationship between the United States and Russia, which he warned could come at the expense of European and Ukrainian interests.
• The president called for 'reforms, choice, and courage' to navigate these emerging geopolitical challenges.
• This viewership matches the audience for Macron's April 2023 address on pension reforms but falls slightly below his June 2023 speech on dissolving the National Assembly.