The French President Emmanuel Macron has been battling on all fronts to prevent an actual war. In the past two weeks, his frantic diplomatic and political agenda has led to more than a dozen conversations with world leaders.
, Brigitte. “It’s always important for Macron, the personal side of relationships,” Tara Varma, the head of the Paris office of the European Council on Foreign Relations, told me. “He wants to open a new chapter of French foreign policy,” she said, one that includes rekindling relations with Moscow.among France’s allies. Only two weeks after being sworn in, in May, 2017, he invited Putin to the Palace of Versailles, greeted the former K.G.B.
France has been a somewhat unruly ally to the U.S. since the Cold War, often trying to assert its independence on the world scene, as when Charles de Gaulle decided to pull out of’s integrated military structure in the nineteen-sixties. Macron shocked his Western partners in 2019, when, in a blunt interview withwas experiencing “brain death.” He later explained that he’d meant the comment as a “wake-up call” to prompt a reflection on the alliance’s strategic goals.
One of Macron’s proposals to solve the current crisis is to revive the “new security architecture” that he pitched to Putin in 2019. “These next few weeks should lead us to bring to fruition a European proposal to build a new order of security and stability,” he in Strasbourg, last month, after France assumed the rotating, six-month presidency of the E.U. But he was careful to add, “We must build it among Europeans, then share it with our allies within theExactly what this new order would look like and how it could prevent a war remains unclear. “It’s a bit ambiguous,” Anne de Tinguy, a senior researcher at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po, in Paris, said.
, a diplomatic grouping that includes representatives from France, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine, and which helped broker the Minsk II agreement. Created in 2014, at an informal meeting of the leaders of the four countries during the seventieth-anniversary commemoration of the D Day landings, in Normandy, the format has been largely inactive in recent years, but it met in Paris at the end of last month, and again in Berlin on Thursday. Because the format excludes the U.S.
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