Centrist liberal Emmanuel Macron has officially won the French presidential race beating far-right candidate Maria Le Pen capturing 66 percent of the votes. This means the European Union, which has been sailing in stormy waters since Britain's decision to leave the EU, is now in safer waters – but just for now.Macron is highly pro-EU and wants to reform the union. He feels the expansion of the EU has been a failure, showing Hungary and Poland as examples. He is against Turkey's EU membership but also agrees that he cannot write off Turkey.So just like Germany, he will continue keeping Turkey in limbo but will also try to establish dialogue with Ankara to forge a working relationship. He feels he has to form some sort of a relationship with growing powers like Turkey and Russia.This will no doubt be an eye opener for Turkey. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is aware that he has to put the country's relations with the EU on a new footing after European leaders opposed the constitutional changes in Turkey, rallied actively against them and actually even barred Turkish ministers entering their respective countries to explain to the Turkish masses living there the merits of the changes.It is clear that Macron will not treat Turkey as a potential EU partner but as an important regional player with whom he has to cooperate.A win for Le Pen would have meant a death warrant for the EU. She was threatening to pull out of Europe as the leader of the French "patriotic movement" but the fact that she boosted the far right votes and is now in a good place to grab a record number of seats in the parliamentary elections shows France is still not out of the storm.Now Macron will forge a close alliance with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who some critics say will actually run France.The French voters apparently voted for the best of the worst. They simply want change and they feel Macron with his young political movement can offer this change. The fact that voters turned their backs on the mainstream Socialist and Republican parties shows clearly that the French people want a fresh start, just as the Turkish people did in 2002 when they threw all the mainstream parties out of Parliament and elected the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) into power.However, Macron is really vague about what he wants to do and how. As the former finance minister who has had the experience of facing the growing problems France is facing, Macron is in a position to implement remedies for the French economy but it seems he is not really a magician with a loaded bag of tricks.The disadvantage he faces is that he remains an unknown and untested political personality and thus some people feel France may well be sailing into the unknown.His country is under a state of emergency, his people want quick results and he has to deal with a massive migrant issue, which Le Pen will always use against him.The French people seem to have opted for the easy way out by not really facing their massive problems head on and preferred a person who may offer some magical solutions. In the real world, that does not happen.