Macron Seeks New Talks With Putin, @’Alternative’ To Stalled US Negotiations
“Macron’s extended hand suggests he’s looking to return to the spotlight after months of European foreign-policy leadership by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.” ~Politico
BY TYLER DURDEN
Suddenly French President Emmanuel Macron is deciding to revive his diplomacy with Moscow and is stepping in and “stealing the show” – as Politico has newly put it – at a moment US-Russia negotiations have been ‘constructive’ but largely slow and even stalled.
There’s been no breakthroughs in Miami this weekend involving White House envoy Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev, who sat across from Ukrainian national security adviser Rustem Umerov.
Macron’s office has said, coming just off a European Council summit which saw a controversial Russian assets confiscation plan for funding Ukraine fail to move forward, that France “welcomed” the idea of new direct talks with the Kremlin, but emphasized that negotiations would happen “in full transparency” for Ukraine and its European allies. “It is welcome that the Kremlin has publicly agreed to this approach. We will decide in the coming days on the best way to proceed,” the Elysee said Sunday.
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