France-Qatar dinner: Mbappé, three-star menu… behind the pageantry, the shadow of diplomatic discussions. Emmanuel Macron welcomes “ten billion euros” of Qatari investment promises by 2030.
“The Head of State recalled that he was working hand in hand with the Qataris to free the three French hostages,” reports one of the participants. Macron thanked them for their role in the release of other French nationals. Qatar plays a central role, sometimes denounced as ambivalent by its opponents, in discussions in the Middle East.