France, as ever, wants to be both European and French

has grounded most European leaders. But not Emmanuel Macron. In recent weeks, the French president has been in hyperactive diplomatic mode. He has jetted off twice to Lebanon, once dropping in on Iraq on the way back. He has dispatched a frigate and two fighter jets to help Greece and Cyprus defend their waters from Turkish incursions, and held a sea-front summit of Mediterranean leaders in Corsica to try to rally others to make a tougher stand against Turkey.

As France is discovering, though, such concepts do not mean the same to everyone. Take the French stance towards Turkey. Mr Macron’s muscular backing for the Greek and Cypriot navies, offered in August after a phone call to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek prime minister, was seen in France as clear-cut: support for a threatened fellow European country, in defence of international law and sovereign borders. Yet it was not universally welcomed.

Misgivings about French activities on Europe’s periphery, though, remain. The most pressing concern Mr Macron’s efforts to create a “strategic dialogue” with Russia. With great fanfare he invited Vladimir Putin to the official presidential retreat on the Mediterranean in August last year , arguing that the best way to keep Russia out of China’s arms was to offer it a place on Europe’s eastern fringe under a new security architecture.

That’s how “Jupiterian” presidencies usually end up: anything goes.

This poisoning... is that the one by state assassins that saw the victim grinning with three blondes recently?

US is losing grip on EU. The empire US made now its declining step by step

and mi6 poisoning excersises too

you overvalued American propaganda meaning

There’s not such thing as being European. The EU is not the USA!

I love your impeccable spelling of every bloody word. It has to be said you do spell marvellously. Too bad you're such a bunch of philistines.

EmmanuelMacron still believes he can find understanding with the DEVIL! Either he succeeds in turning the DEVIL to the GOOD, or he's absorbed by the DEVIL & transformed to the DEVIL's Puppet like a certain SLAVE of PUTIN of the NAME of TRUMP THE ASSHOLE orlandosentinel

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