Lhe Macronian dream of a sovereign Europe seems further than ever from reality. The first international crisis of 2022 left the French presidency of the European Union speechless as well as the new German government of Olaf Scholz. What a contrast with the last French presidency of the EU, in 2008, when Nicolas Sarkozy, strong with the support of Angela Merkel, went to Tbilisi and Moscow to negotiate a ceasefire between Russians and Georgians!
Since the ultimatum issued on December 17 by Moscow to the West, demanding a return of Ukraine to Russian rule and the reconstitution of a strategic glacis on the western steps of Russia, the United States has been leading the negotiation alone. It is paradoxical that it was Vladimir Putin who incited the…
