Macron rallies Europe to back Ukraine following ceasefire talks, Le Monde reports

Europe must save what can be saved

To understand and predict what will happen next day is difficult, to say the least. In a week, everything may have changed. So many conflicting forces are at work, so many mistakes, tragedies and disasters are entirely possible. It may be Ukraine, the United States, Europe or Gaza. Sometimes I feel transported to the end of the 19th century, when the great powers divided the world into spheres of influence and competed for Africa's natural resou…

Boots, military budgets, professional armies and conscript armies... The world is re-arming itself After the spectacular release of Ukraine by the United States, Europe resounded this week with a war music that many countries had forgotten for 80 years. President Macron took the lead in this campaign leaving his Prime Minister and government in a tangled and glorified interior situation. The same week saw massacres in Syria that did not generate…

In his address to the French, Emmanuel Macron presented the challenges facing Europe in this context of war between Ukraine and Russia. Indeed, after Donald Trump's defeat and Vladimir Putin's attempts to destabilize, the urgency is to get out of the ultra-dependence of European forces to American technologies and to build an autonomous and sovereign European defence. The challenge for France is therefore to ensure that its defence industry bene…

The Ukrainian President calls for more pressure on Russia. Five European NATO states, including France and Great Britain, are working on military security guarantees for Ukraine.

Macron Urges Europe, NATO To Work On Ukraine Security Guarantees: Presidency

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday called on European and NATO military chiefs to draw up a plan "to define credible security guarantees" for Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire, the presidency said.

Macron calls for plan to ensure credible security guarantees for Ukraine

France's president has told military chiefs and others attending an international defense conference in Paris that a plan should be developed to ensure that Ukraine has security guarantees.