FILE PHOTO: French President Emmanuel Macron waits for the arrival of a guest at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, November 12, 2019. REUTERS/Johanna Geron
LONDON (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron's stark description of the "brain death" of transatlantic military alliance NATO grabbed headlines last week, but his views on Russia and European Union enlargement may well have greater long-term impact.
His blunt, 8,000-word discourse with The Economist prompted soul-searching in Berlin, Brussels and other European capitals, but Moscow praised it and analysts pored over nuances, broadly seeing it as a call for Europe to chart a radical new course.
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