[HIGHLIGHTS] For Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin has "awakened" NATO with "the worst electroshock"

Emmanuel Macron calls for "tangible and credible" security guarantees to Ukraine pending its accession to NATO. The countries of this region are viscerally attached to NATO, the only bulwark in their eyes against what they perceive as an existential Russian threat.

The strengthening of European sovereignty advocated by the French head of state is perceived by the latter as a desire to reduce Washington's weight on the Old Continent. "We must not let Europe be kidnapped a second time," he said in reference to the Cold War between the Americans and the Soviets.