At a time when the international order is in upheaval and France is being challenged - particularly in Africa - Emmanuel Macron is trying to establish his country on the world stage as a balanced power, neither aligned nor vassalized.
Guest: Richard Werly, journalist and Paris correspondent for Blick - author of "La France contre elle-même" (Ed. Grasset, 2022)
Presentation: Laurent Huguenin-Elie
Contents:
00:00 France, loss of influence?
02:03 Diplomacy according to Emmanuel Macron
05:45 Richard Werly: "France, a great power with a capital G and a capital P, is over".
11:05 France in Africa: reinventing diplomacy
13:44 Richard Werly: "The great difficulty for France today is that it depends on Africa's decisions"
16:51 The influence of the French military industry
19:24 Richard Werly: "Overseas France is an asset for France, if it stabilizes relations with these territories"
23:10 In 2003, Dominique de Villepin's historic speech to the UN against intervention in Iraq