French President Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin agreed to coordinate their approach on Iran in their first phone call since 2022, marking a rare overture from a European head to the Russian leader ...

On February 20, Emmanuel Macron held a phone call with Vladimir Putin. Shortly after it ended, the French President announced he would broker a summit between his Russian counterpart and US ...

MOSCOW/PARIS, July 1 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin had a "substantial" phone call with French President ...

French President Emmanuel Macron urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to agree a ceasefire in Ukraine "as soon as possible" as the two held their first known phone talks in over 2.5 years, ...

French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu says that concerns over Iran’s nuclear programme were among the reasons President ...

French President Emmanuel Macron this week said that negotiation with Russia could still end the war in Ukraine — and that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion was a “huge mistake ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s attempt to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by constantly seeking to reengage with Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin is the definition of insanity.

And Macron is striving to leverage his personal connection with Putin to prevent it. But he seems to have learned the lessons of 2019, taking care to conduct some preliminary consultative diplomacy.

French President Emmanuel Macron looks at a picture showing him with Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview at the Elysee Palace in Paris, shown on the TF1 TV channel.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with French President Emmanuel Macron during a video conference on June 26, 2020. Mikhail KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES ...

The French leader recounted his face-off with Vladimir Putin and dismissed Washington’s exchange of letters with Moscow, gambling that his diplomacy could pay off before April elections.