Roundtable Meeting with
Dorothée Schmid,
Senior Research Fellow
& Head of IFRI’s Turkey and Middle East Program
May 27, 2022
On May 27, 2022, Dorothée Schmid, Senior Research Fellow & Head of IFRI’s Turkey and Middle East Program, addressed GRF and GRF Community members at a hybrid roundtable meeting. In her speech evaluating the outcome of the latest elections in France, Ms. Schmid shared with the participants Emmanuel Macron’s political priorities in his second term. Elaborating on how Macron’s political character has influenced both the governmental structure in France as well as its foreign relations, Ms. Schmid stated that Macron is positioning himself to fill the EU’s leadership vacuum left by Angela Merkel’s departure in Germany through the Ukraine crisis. Ms. Schmid also briefly touched on the future of France-Turkey relations and following her speech, answered the participants’ questions.