Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit during the G7 Summit for talks with allies and major developing nations is a "way to build peace", French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday.
Emmanuel Macron, the man who has led France since 2017, gave an ominous speech at a cabinet meeting before he left his country to attend the funeral of the recently expired Queen of England.
Ukraine and Russia have recently exchanged accusations over shellings on the Zaporizhzhia NPP, which is one of the largest atomic power complexes in Europe and generates a quarter of Ukraine's total electricity.
Mr Macron’s bet, which was to coast along with institutional logic and tell himself that the French would give the elected President a majority, has failed.
Fears that the far-right under Marine Le Pen might carve a path to the Élysée Palace ultimately proved to be unfounded. Emmanuel Macron retained the French presidency with a 17 per cent advantage over his opponent.
In order to win, the two contenders, who also contested the presidential run-off in the 2017 election, will need to attract voters who backed other candidates in the first round on April 10, says a BBC report.
Macron and Scholz urged an immediate ceasefire and a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine, the German government said in a statement, noting the 75-minute talk as part of the ongoing international efforts to end the conflict, Xinhua reported.
President Macron, who declared on taking office that he’s beholden to no particular ideology, found – and took – the opportunity to provide a French flavour to Europe’s stand on major foreign policy issues without letting historic allegiances, customs, or his own inexperience get in the way of his ambitions.
Mr Macron expressed optimism that a deal to avoid war is possible while accepting that it was legitimate for Russia to raise its security concerns, the first sign that the West may be ready to blink.
Von der Leyen recalled the solidarity between European countries during the pandemic. She said that over 70 per cent of the EU's adult population have now been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and that the EU aims to donate and deliver 1.7 billion vaccine doses around the world by the middle of this year.
