After the shockwave that stunned observers on the European continent, provoked by the rapprochement between Russians and Americans over Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron has regained a role befitting his stature: Informal meetings with European leaders at the start of the week, talks with the country's political parties on Thursday, February 20, and, ahead of a meeting with Donald Trump in Washington next Monday, a live broadcast on his official social media accounts, held later on Thursday, to "answer the French people's questions" on Ukraine and European security.