The visit did not convince.
Monday evening, Emmanuel Macron exchanged for long hours with Vladimir Putin from Moscow, Russia, to obtain guarantees concerning a de-escalation of tensions with Ukraine.
Only "
concrete measures to avoid escalation
" were finally mentioned, causing the right to denounce a late and insufficient move.
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“
The progress is already that Emmanuel Macron has decided to go to Moscow.
I have been asking for it for several days
”, declared Nadine Morano, political adviser to Valérie Pécresse and guest this morning on LCI.
"
I find that Russia deserves a much more developed and much more powerful attention than what we have had during the quinquennium
", she continued, thus recalling the situation of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008, strangely similar to that which currently knows Emmanuel Macron.
The former head of state then tried to mediate in the war between Russia and Georgia, notably by going there.
“Bluffs”
“
Diplomacy is dialogue.
I blame French diplomacy for not having maintained a demanding dialogue with Russia
, ”also declared the leader of LR senators, Bruno Retailleau on Europe 1. “
Was it necessary to do it?
(go there, editor's note) I think so.
(...) Now I am always wary of bluffing, showing off, Emmanuel Macron.
I think we had to go, but he comes back empty-handed with an extraordinary Putin-style staging – a cold room like Siberia and a very long table to add physical distance
, ”he further castigated.
Same story on the side of the LR deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes, Éric Ciotti, for whom the "
error
" and the "
fault
" have been not to dialogue during the past two years.
“
We need to break this isolation.
We must stop this form of new cold war
”, he claimed, before evoking a trip which “
naturally participates in the electoral campaign of candidate Macron
”.
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For their part, several ministers succeeded each other on the sets to defend the action of the Head of State.
“
The only option is the one defended by the President of the Republic, the one he defended in Moscow with Vladimir Putin: it is de-escalation
”, argued the Minister of Economy and Finance. , Bruno Le Maire.
"
Now we know after this discussion (...) that there is a possible way to avoid a conflict and build a de-escalation
", added the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune.
And to warn: “
It will take time.
It is the start of a process.
There are still a lot of risks.
But this hope for dialogue exists.
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