French-German Discord Over Support for Ukraine Points to EU Prolonging the War

Paris stymies Kyiv’s attempt to keep tabs on Belarus, while Berlin more or less looks on.

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President Macron on April 20, 2023, at Ganges, southern France. AP/Daniel Cole, pool

Did you hear the one about President Macron’s incipient plan to rendezvous with Red China’s foreign policy mandarin, Wang Yi, to try to douse the flames in Ukraine by summer’s end? In France, the sound of Monsieur Macron’s plummeting poll numbers have mostly drowned that out — and prompted his archrival, Marine Le Pen, to politely suggest he resign. 

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