French President Emmanuel Macron defended his decision in June to call snap parliamentary elections and said he trusted the new government to be able to push through "useful reform" for the country.
"I'm reasonably optimistic about the fact that reasonable social democrats, centrists and reasonable rightists can work together for the years to come to deliver a strong agenda," Macron said on a panel discussion with Bloomberg's Stephanie Flanders at the Berlin Global Dialogue. "What we have to do is first to preserve and digest all the reforms we delivered during the past seven years."