#1 "No less than 35 companies from France’s blue-chip CAC 40 index remain active in Russia, according to a French media report. It could be argued corporate France has largely followed President Emmanuel Macron’s lead in trying not to inflame Putin and his cronies.
On a political level, Macron has repeatedly attempted to play peacemaker. While condemning the Kremlin, he was at pains to stress that France was not in a military conflict with Russia earlier this month. “There is a war on the ground, but we are not at war,” he said, following a meeting of EU heads of state at the Palace of Versailles." |