{"id":95207,"date":"2025-05-12T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/95207\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:29:08","slug":"macrons-office-hits-back-at-claims-he-brought-cocaine-on-kyiv-train-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/95207\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron\u2019s office hits back at claims he brought cocaine on Kyiv train \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is a tissue. For blowing your nose\u201d it posted next to another picture of the leaders with the caption, \u201cThis is European unity. To build peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When European unity becomes inconvenient, disinformation goes so far as to make a simple tissue look like drugs.<\/p>\n<p>This fake news is being spread by France\u2019s enemies, both abroad and at home. We must remain vigilant against manipulation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xyXhGm9Dsr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/xyXhGm9Dsr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u00c9lys\u00e9e (@Elysee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Elysee\/status\/1921676720995782761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Elys\u00e9e accused \u201cFrance\u2019s enemies\u201d of spreading disinformation, though it has held back from pointing the finger at anyone specifically. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/macron-leaks-cyberattack-russia-gru-moscow-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France last month said<\/a> Russia was waging a silent war against the country and denounced cyberattacks coming from the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must remain vigilant against manipulation,\u201d read the post, which was published in French and English. \u201cWhen European unity becomes inconvenient, disinformation goes as far as to make a simple tissue look like drugs,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n<p>The French presidency has adopted a more aggressive approach against disinformation on the internet in recent weeks, which has coincided with the arrival of Macron\u2019s new international spokesperson Jean-No\u00ebl Ladois.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s by denying them when they emerge that we weaken them,\u201d said an Elys\u00e9e official, who was granted anonymity in line with standard French protocol.<\/p>\n<p>The Elys\u00e9e Palace also hit back last month at a news story that claimed U.S. President Donald Trump had excluded Macron during talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is a tissue. For blowing your nose\u201d it posted next to another picture of the leaders with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13071,32,34,36,17104,23905,43,12,332,657,49,19276,2601,771,335,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-95207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-disinformation","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-french-eu-presidency","13":"tag-illicit-drugs","14":"tag-macron","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-vatican","20":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","21":"tag-war","22":"tag-war-in-ukraine","23":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}