French President Emmanuel Macron has created a brouhaha in France after being filmed downing a bottle of beer with Toulouse's rugby players.
Emmanuel Macron, like his predecessors, is a fervent supporter of the French wine industry.PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron has created a brouhaha in France after being filmed downing a bottle of beer with Toulouse's rugby players after they clinched the domestic league title at the weekend.
"Toxic masculinity in political leadership in one image," tweeted Sandrine Rousseau an MP for the Greens party. He has also given fervent backing to France's famed wine industry, even blocking attempts by public health authorities to promote the"Dry January" concept -- turning the first month of the year into four weeks of alcohol abstinence.
"It's inappropriate," William Lowenstein, a doctor and addiction specialist, told the same channel."You could do it, but not in front of the cameras."
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