Inventing another diplomacy is what the participants at the Paris Forum for Peace, the second edition, will do. A forum that will be opened Tuesday morning by Emmanuel Macron in front of thirty heads of state, while the multilateralism dear to the president is increasingly fragile.
A "new diplomacy". With this forum, Emmanuel Macron hopes to live multilateralism, except this morning, few leaders of great powers will travel to listen. Donald Trump's United States does not send any official representative, and Angela Merkel like Vladimir Putin will be represented by ministers. Then Emmanuel Macron, who regularly warns against the "withdrawal", "the law of the strongest" will highlight a "new diplomacy". For this, the head of state relies on companies, NGOs, individual projects.
This morning, for example, he will promote an initiative dedicated to gender equality in business, launched at the G7 in Biarritz in late August, joined by several multinationals. A less political diplomacy, a way of circumventing states that, according to the Elysee Palace, "do not have the capacity to face the challenges of tomorrow alone".