French President Emmanuel Macron officially announced his re-election bid on Thursday, finally entering a campaign upended by a war he tried – and failed – to avert. FRANCE 24 takes a look at five years of Macron on the international stage.
Right up to the end of his term in office, France’s youngest leader since Napoleon has stuck to the role he fashioned for himself after his surprise victory in 2017: that of a mediator-in-chief, placing French diplomacy – and himself – firmly in the spotlight.
