France's regrettable deal over Russian sanctions
- Posted on September 24, 2026
- By Le Monde
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France's regrettable deal over Russian sanctions
EDITORIAL. By getting its partners to lift EU sanctions on oligarch Alisher Usmanov through what amounted to blackmail, France put its own interests first and muddied President Macron's warnings about the Russian threat to Ukraine's European backers.