I love youme neither. “Boris Johnson would be more than ready to mend Paris-London relations” the day after Emmanuel Macron’s re-election, relates The Times. Problem, the tenant of the Elysée would not taste the advances of the curator. “One of the reasons for this is that Mr Macron does not hide that he considers Mr Johnson a lazy wretch whose word is worthless”sighs the conservative daily in its April 26 editorial.
Time passes, hurtful words remain. Emmanuel Macron would have in the past treated Boris Johnson as “clown”in private. “Give me a break”, had launched the second to the first after the signing of the Aukus pact, in the fall of 2021. This strategic alliance signed between the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia at the expense of an arms contract between Paris and Canberra added to a long list of grievances accumulated since Brexit.
“Over the past three years, the UK and France have argued over t