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Michel Duclos: "France is experiencing a moment of strategic solitude"

2021-10-21T17:52:40.472Z


BIG INTERVIEW - In a fine and nuanced essay, France in the upheavals of the world, this veteran former diplomat looks back on the successes and setbacks of Emmanuel Macron's foreign policy in a world which remains a jungle of "wild beasts with fangs" .


Author of the essay

France in the upheavals of the world

(Éditions de l'Observatoire), the special advisor at the Institut Montaigne delivers to

Le Figaro

his thoughts on preserving France's influence in a world that is "de-

Westernizing

".

LE FIGARO. - You devote a book to Emmanuel Macron's French diplomacy, with a record that you consider very mixed. A success on the pooling of debts in Europe, but also “a

lot of setbacks and failures

”: Franco-German disagreements, failure of the opening towards Moscow welcomed by “

a granite Putin

”, weakness of the European strategic revival, and now the snub of Aukus, an alliance of the United States, Australia and Great Britain in the Indo-Pacific. A real "

strategic solitude

" of France, explain yourself ...

Michel DUCLOS.

-

No one can deny that President Macron's very ambitious diplomacy has suffered a lot of setbacks, in crisis management in particular (Syria, Libya, Iran, Lebanon, now

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Source: lefigaro

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