“France will continue to fully play its role of reassuring NATO allies by sending a new contingent to Estonia within the enhanced forward presence, anticipating its participation in the policing of the Baltic skies from March, and by also accelerating its deployment in Romania”, declared the French president at the end of an exceptional summit of the European Union in Brussels and on the eve of a NATO summit devoted to the crisis in Ukraine.
Emmanuel Macron also considered it useful to “leave the path open” for dialogue with Moscow to obtain a halt to his offensive in Ukraine, while denouncing the “duplicity” of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin with whom he says he had an “exchange” on Thursday. frank, direct, fast”.