Paris | Emmanuel Macron used the reopening of Notre Dame to bring together Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, a carefully executed diplomatic coup for the French president as the world’s eyes turned back to Paris five years after the cathedral’s devastating fire.
The US president-elect was among 50 world leaders present for the joyful reopening of the French icon, coming at a time of political peril for Mr Macron and as Europe holds its breath for the second Trump era.
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Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at thomas.mcilroy@afr.com
