Barely elected in 2017, Emmanuel Macron had received Vladimir Poutine in the golds of the Palace of Versailles, and shared with him his disagreements in the Battles gallery.
Diplomacy is also a matter of symbols, and it is still in the Palace of Versailles that the French president receives his European counterparts on Thursday and Friday for a summit devoted to Ukraine.
There is no doubt that they will in turn cross the Galerie des Batailles.
But not in the same direction.
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Because in the meantime Europe has woken up after twenty years of blindness.
Alternately complacent, weak, fearful or blind in the face of Vladimir Putin's repeated wars, since the start of the Ukrainian invasion she has found a unity that we did not know she had.
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