The former President of the Republic between 2012 and 2017, François Hollande will unveil this Wednesday, September 7 a new book, entitled Upheavals, To understand the new global situation, Stock editions. A book in which Emmanuel Macron does not escape criticism or even Vladimir Poutine. “Contrary to what he makes believe, (Vladimir Putin, editor’s note) is not impressive”
But it does not stop there, this Tuesday, September 6, the politician indicated in the columns of the Express, how the Russian leader Putin behaves during talks with his foreign counterparts. “He tries at each meeting to establish an almost physical relationship with his interlocutor and to multiply the digressions so as never to approach the essential. He alternates hot and cold, or rather hot and cold”.
Wednesday March 9, François Hollande was invited on the set of It’s up to you revealing behind the scenes of his past exchanges with Vladimir Putin.
“I understood Poutine maybe quite easily“, he let go before going into more detail. “The first time I received Vladimir Poutine in 2012, I had just been elected president and he had just become president again. He immediately gave me an aggressive speech against the United States, telling me: ‘You see, they want to install missiles, they want to attack us’. I said to him: ‘No but listen, be realistic, there is no aggressive will.’ He was in this determination there compared to the United States“.
Husband Julie Gayet had insisted that he had “notnever been wrong about what Vladimir Putin wanted.And to add:He wants to reconstitute the Soviet Union in another form. He is deeply humbled by what happened at the end of the Soviet Union, he thinks it’s an American plot, and he keeps his people and his country in this story“.
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Adam Javal-Fauconnier