France, former premier Villepin: “We must impose an embargo on gas and oil to force Putin to quickly find a way out of the war”

PARIS – “We impose maximum sanctions on Moscow, with an embargo on gas and oil, and we make a diplomatic blitzkrieg”. Dominique de Villepin he was famous for his speech at the UN in which he announced France’s no to intervention in Iraq. The former foreign minister has become a symbol of a very Gaullist non-aligned position. At the same time, the former prime minister launches an idea in this interview that will cause debate: France, he says, should find a way to share nuclear deterrence with Germany.