PARIS — There came a point during his primary campaign when François Fillon started making foreign policy pronouncements that seemed cut-and-pasted from Vladimir Putin’s propaganda manual.
The annexation of Crimea? Bad, but what about the NATO intervention in Kosovo back in 1999? Russia not abiding by the so-called Minsk accord on Ukraine? Bad, but what about Ukraine not doing its part either by granting autonomy to the Donbas region?
That happened in Fillon’s debate with rival Alain Juppé, three days before his November 27 victory in the second round of the conservative primary, when he pounced once again on outgoing President François …read more
Source: European Voice
