Emmanuel Macron's Russia policy: stages and roots of a new approach, 2017-2024

In this detailed article, the author revisits the characteristics and evolution of President Macron's Russia policy. He reviews the different stages of this policy since 2017 and presents the modalities of its gradual but significant transformation. He shows that, despite initial "serious errors of assessment", the French president has finally succeeded in bringing together his project for European strategic autonomy and France's policy towards Vladimir Putin's Russia.