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[[François Hollande]], a socialist, won the 2012 presidential election. [[Emmanuel Macron]], a liberal [[globalist]], won the 2017 presidential election, defeating populist [[Marine Le Pen]].
[[François Hollande]], a socialist, won the 2012 presidential election. [[Emmanuel Macron]], a liberal [[globalist]], won the 2017 presidential election, defeating populist [[Marine Le Pen]].
The French channel referred to an old United Nations report documenting systematic torture in [[Donbas]], but it neglected to mention either the Azov Battalion's special prisons uncovered by the Russian army,<ref>https://thesaker.is/former-sbu-employee-revealed-information-about-secret-prisons-in-donbass-and-kievs-involvement-in-downing-mh17/</ref> or statements issued by the UN in this regard. France-2 also failed to explain the weight of the [[Banderite]]s in [[Ukrainian nationalist]] history, reducing the prominence of the neo-Nazis to brandishing the [[swastika]]. France-2 reported the threat to be between 3,000 and 5,000 men, while ''[[Reuters]]'' reported the paramilitary [[Banderite]]s number to be 102,000 men, split into several militias incorporated within the Territorial Defense.
In 2022, with Emmanuel Macron facing re-election in weeks, the fact French officers were holed up training neo-Nazis in [[Azovstal]] was an embarrassing revelation. <ref>https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/04/09/nato-fails-to-evacuate-military-advisors-from-mariupol-in-dry-cargo-ship/</ref>
On May 10, 2022 Macron, speaking to the [[European Parliament]] in [[Strasbourg]], quashed Ukrainian ambitions to join the EU, proposing instead a "new European political community" open to non-member states like Ukraine, adding that it may take "several decades" for Kyiv to fully realize its EU ambitions.<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/macron-ukraine-eu-russia-france-1705232</ref>
On May 19, 2022, during a visit to Romania, Macron commented on NATO provocations against Transnistria: “The recent incidents in Transnistria show that we cannot exclude that the conflict will spread to neighboring countries," and that [[France]] “intends to keep a special eye on the regional security situation and any possible encroachment on Moldova’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
===Foreign Relations===
===Foreign Relations===