Macron had insisted last year that Russia should not be 'humiliated' over its invasion of Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged on Wednesday that France should have paid more attention to Eastern European nations, which warned about a belligerent Russia before Moscow’s forces invaded Ukraine.
Mr Macron told a security forum there should be no division between “Old Europe” and “New Europe”, referring to enduring divergences between eastern and western European Union members over matters such as Russia. “Some said you had missed an opportunity to shut up. I think we also lost an opportunity to listen to you. This time is over,” Mr Macron said to applause, during a speech at the GLOBSEC think-tank in the Slovak capital, Bratislava.
He was alluding to a remark in 2003 by then-French president Jacques Chirac, who said east European nations who sided with the United States and Britain in their decision to invade Iraq that year, opposed by some major western allies including France and Germany, had missed a “good opportunity to shut up”.
The remark shocked east European countries and contributed to an enduring mistrust of Paris by EU’s newest members that has re-emerged sinceIn the aftermath of the invasion, eastern EU countries such as Poland criticised Mr Macron for keeping communication channels open with Russian President Vladimir Putin, or for saying that
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