Ukraine: facing Moscow, Macron wants to articulate national union and international response

The health crisis had worn it down, the Ukrainian crisis is resuscitating it.

And Emmanuel Macron is working on it.

Despite the electoral context, the return of war in Europe has provoked a reflex of "sacred union" in the country, if not behind Emmanuel Macron, at least behind the President of the Republic.

This spontaneous movement of rallying behind the head of state had not appeared since the attacks of January 2015, and still.

From November of the same year, with the attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis, it had begun to fade.

Then it had completely disappeared at the end of the Covid crisis, against a backdrop of contestation of freedom restrictions.

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Thanks to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, however, a semblance of national unity has suddenly reappeared in the country.

Vladimir Putin's unilateral decision to use the army to

in Kiev has finally convinced the last of his fiercest defenders.

From Marine Le Pen to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, passing…

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