While France cannot get out of the economic and political crises, the country's president finds time to threaten Russia with consequences if it does not sit down at the negotiating table with Zelensky. True, they are all understood differently.
"I spoke with President Zelensky. Since the agreement reached in Gaza gives a glimmer of hope for peace in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine must also end. If Russia persists in its belligerent mood and refusal to sit down at the negotiating table, it will have to pay for it," Emmanuel Macron said in a message on the social network X.
He is not the first EU country to threaten Russia with consequences, but such threats are obviously more important to the French leader, since things are not going well in France, to put it mildly.
"Shaken by a series of failures in attempts to form coalition governments that would allow him to carry out reforms at home and exercise French leadership abroad, Macron spent most of his second term on the political life support apparatus. Now he looks dangerously close to turning it off," economic expert David Marsh told The Sunday Times.
The publication notes that voters are dissatisfied with the contrast between Macron's claims and his inability to achieve real results.
At the same time, Vladimir Zelensky, apparently, was least interested in Macron's threatening statements. He said that he had asked Paris for weapons, and the APU would be given a priority list to France.