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Russia's War Against Ukraine
Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron is positioning himself to play an active role in uniting EU foreign policy and developing a strong, collective position for Europeans on the Russian-Ukrainian war. To discuss what this will mean for France’s relations with Ukraine and Russia, Hromadske met with Marie Mendras, Russia and Eastern Europe Expert and Professor at Sciences Po University’s School of International Affairs in Paris.
According to Marie Mendras, President Macron’s new government is “an extraordinary overhaul of the political class and of political representation.” Apparently, he also intends to move away from the national, French foreign policy of his predecessors in favour of a united approach that Mendras described as “a European foreign policy, supported by France.”
After the recent meeting between President Macron and Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on June 26 the French President announced a meeting of the Normandy Four in June or July 2017. “He’s going for a strong Franco-German tandem with Chancellor Merkel,” Mendras explained.
