Emmanuel Macron’s vision of a more muscular Europe is coming true
But his allies disagree on its strategies and goals
It was a cautious but hopeful French president who took his seat in the beige-trimmed aircraft office, bound from Moscow to Kyiv on February 8th 2022. The previous night Emmanuel Macron had spent over five strikingly socially distanced hours seated opposite Vladimir Putin at a table the length of a shipping container.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Perpetual motion”
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