“The National Front is Pontius Pilate,” said the former head of French diplomacy after Marine Le Pen's party chose not to vote for the new support plan for Ukraine. “There are some who wash their hands, [...] and it is serious to call into question the intangibility of borders,’ continued the former Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs.

On the conflict in Gaza, Jean-Yves Le Drian showed himself to be intractable with the war led by Israel after the Hamas attack.