Emmanuel Macron’s hosting of sixty world leaders in Paris last weekend to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice has turned into a public relations disaster.
The president of the Republic not only infuriated Donald Trump, but he also put the Serbian president’s nose out of joint. According to reports, Aleksandar Vucic was not amused with the seating arrangements at Sunday’s service of remembrance. While Kosovo’s president Hashim Thaçi was behind the leaders of France, Germany, Russia, and the United States, Vucic was shunted off to the side. “You can imagine how I felt,” Thaci is quoted as telling the Serbian media. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing before me, knowing the sacrifice that the Serbian people made in World War One.”
Marine Le Pen seized on those comments in an interview yesterday, saying that she was shocked at the treatment of president Vucic, whose country suffered disproportionately high losses in the first world war.
But perhaps the image that will come back to haunt Macron is the video clip
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