The limits of Emmanuel Macron’s pr • Table.Briefings

The European Political Community was supposed to bring together heads of state and government from all over Europe. With crises from Nagorno-Karabakh to northern Kosovo on the agenda, the new format is reaching its limits at the third rendezvous.

Originally intended to be a relaxed format for informal high-level exchanges, perhaps a large event with nearly 50 heads of state and government is not the right framework for discussing war and peace. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev did not even attend the third meeting of the European Political Community (EPC) in Granada. Therefore, the planned bilateral discussion on steps toward normalization with Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan could not take place.

The limits of Emmanuel Macron’s prestige project

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