Debate of the day
What Europe after the war?
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks on video to participants at a meeting of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) leaders, in London, March 15, 2022. REUTERS - POOL
By: Romain Auzouy
1 min
Quite a symbol.
French President Emmanuel Macron could travel to kyiv on Thursday - his first visit to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24 - accompanied by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
By way of comparison, the Polish, Czech and Slovenian Prime Ministers visited Ukraine three weeks after the start of the war.
These are the two opposing European lines.
That advocated by Paris, Berlin and Rome in favor of maintaining dialogue with Russia.
And that of Eastern Europe which is more firm, wishes to increase the sanctions and achieve a military defeat of Russia.
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What are the consequences of the clash of these two lines?
Will European leadership change?
What future relations with Russia?
To discuss
:
Michel Duclos,
former French ambassador to Syria, special adviser to the Institut Montaigne, author of the note
War in Ukraine: a new foreign policy for France
Pierre Haroche
, European security researcher at the Institute for Strategic Research of the Military School (IRSEM)
Nicole Gnesotto,
professor at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (Cnam), author of the book
Europe
: Change or Perish
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