Francesco Fontemaggi

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  • France’s President Emmanuel Macron speaks on the phone prior to greeting Hungary’s Prime Minister for a meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on March 5, 2025. Emmanuel Macron announced on March 5, 2025, that France will gather next week in Paris the chiefs of staff from countries ready to guarantee a future peace in Ukraine. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    Phone exchanges between world leaders including Trump, Macron and Zelensky are creating a new wave of ‘mobile phone diplomacy’

    By Francesco Fontemaggi and AFP
  • PARIS, FRANCE – DECEMBER 07: French President Emmanuel Macron (C) poses for photographers with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (R) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) after their meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace on December 7, 2024 in Paris, France. A wave of foreign dignitaries descended on Paris this weekend to attend a reopening ceremony at Notre-Dame Cathedral, more than five years after it was damaged in a major fire. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)Politics

    Emmanuel Macron says pressure must be placed on Russia to accept ceasefire or else ‘Trump will toughen sanctions and retaliation’

    By Francesco Fontemaggi and AFP
  • US President-elect Donald Trump (L) looks towards French President Emmanuel Macron (R) during a ceremony to mark the re-opening of the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on December 7, 2024. Around 50 heads of state and government are expected in the French capital to attend the ceremony marking the rebuilding of the Gothic masterpiece five years after the 2019 fire which ravaged the world heritage landmark and toppled its spire. Some 250 companies and hundreds of experts were part of the five-year restoration project at a cost of hundreds of millions of euros. (Photo by Thibault Camus / POOL / AFP) (Photo by THIBAULT CAMUS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    European leaders push for unity amid fears Trump could sideline them in Moscow negotiations

    By Valerie Leroux, Francesco Fontemaggi, and others