France’s vital interests now have a European dimension
At the end of the third year ... ... remain ‘sovereign:’ Paris will neither, as a matter of principle, be part of the NATO Nuclear Planning Group nor will it participate in the NATO’s Nuclear Sharing... ... during de Gaulle’s presidency.
But the Euro-optimists, who are eager to make the European Union a great nuclear power, have been unhappy with the Treaty of Lisbon for...
..., including regarding Russian, which is very important for the European Union
Emmanuel Macron’s recent response to Russia’s ... ... statement. Capitals of Central Europe responded with a barrage of accusations against the Élysée Palace, suggesting its current occupant ... ... concessions to Moscow. Many in the United States were surprised that France was trying to influence the fate of the INF Treaty, which ... ... had some explaining to do to his American and European partners, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, journalists and experts,...
... regional system, or as in Versailles, its exclusion from such a system of postwar relations.
The double enlargement, i.e. of the NATO and the EU, as well as incomplete, in terms of Chapter VIII of the UN Charter, institutionalization of the OSCE (as opposed,... ... globalised world of interdependence and cultural diversity, where development of all would ensure development of each nation.
France convened the Paris Peace Forum last year to mark the end of World War One. So far its results do not impress. Maybe, we ...