Thinking of future peace negotiations, for the moment still hypothetical, Emmanuel Macron once again gives pledges to the Kremlin.

The Head of State thus estimated on Wednesday that Ukraine's entry into NATO would be experienced by Russia as a confrontation and that it is not the "most likely scenario".

“The entry of Ukraine into NATO would be perceived by Russia as something confrontational.

It is not with this Russia that you can imagine it, ”he declared in an interview with the French daily newspapers

Le Monde

, American

Wall Street Journal

and Lebanese

An Nahar

.

A position criticized in kyiv and in Eastern Europe

“Whether or not Ukraine joins NATO – and this is not the most likely scenario – it will have to be given security guarantees that are all the more robust in that it has been attacked by Russia”, has he continued.

Emmanuel Macron thus insisted on the need to grant "security guarantees" to Ukraine but also to Russia at the end of the Ukrainian conflict, a position which has earned him strong criticism in kyiv and in Eastern Europe. is.

“At the end, we will have to get everyone around the table.

And so that all Europeans and Westerners who give me moral lessons explain to me who they will sit around the table with, ”he said.

"I don't want it to be the Chinese and the Turks alone who negotiate the next day," he said, referring in particular to the mediation efforts of Turkish diplomacy.

Europe must rethink its “strategic autonomy”

The French president also again pleaded for the strategic autonomy of Europe, within NATO, but with less dependence vis-à-vis the United States.

“There is no European security architecture without strategic autonomy, in NATO and with NATO, but not depending on NATO”.

“An alliance is not something I depend on, it's something I choose (…) We must rethink our strategic autonomy,” he insisted.

"Europe must gain in technological and capacity autonomy, including in relation to the United States", also hammered the Head of State.

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