“We must not let Russia win.” President Emmanuel Macron insisted, in the 8 p.m. television news on TF1 and France 2, Thursday March 14, his desire to continue to support Ukraine. “The RUssie cannot and must not win this war.”he said in particular. “To have peace in Ukraine, you must not be weak”he also assured, while saying that France would never be “on the offensive”. Follow our live stream.
The president’s entry into the European campaign. Three months before the European elections, Emmanuel Macron’s interview will also de facto mark his entry into the campaign, after his camp’s first meeting on Sunday in Lille. He will also speak in the wake of the first major European debate, on Public Senate, with all the heads of the list, with the exception of Jordan Bardella (National Rally), represented by Thierry Mariani. The presidential majority has notably planned to focus its campaign on support for Ukraine, accusing the National Rally and La France Insoumise of holding pro-Russian positions.
Support for Ukraine voted by Parliament. The National Assembly on Tuesday, like the Senate on Wednesday, largely approved the security agreement, far from the consensus generally observed on international issues. These votes came after the signing of the bilateral security agreement with kyiv on February 16.
Russia is increasingly threatening, according to the president. Emmanuel Macron and his Prime Minister are multiplying alarming warnings in the event of a Russian victory. “Powers that have become unstoppable” are “expanding the threat every day, attacking ourselves more”estimated the Head of State at the beginning of March, calling for “the height of History and the courage it implies”. Gabriel Attal predicts a “cataclysm for purchasing power” of the French if Russia were to win, with a “food inflation to the power of ten, an explosion in energy prices to the power of ten”.