The US ambassador to Paris, Charles Kushner’s access to the French government has been restored, allowing him to resume his diplomatic duties. In Belgium, US Ambassador Bill White has repeatedly weighed into a judicial investigation into circumcision practices in Antwerp’s orthodox Jewish community. That, says Pierre Vimont, a former French ambassador to Washington, requires a new kind of vigilance from the Europeans. “American foreign policy has a very strong ideological content nowadays, and I think this is what needs to be handled very carefully,” he told CNN. France, he said, had “no lessons to learn from the reactionary international movement,” when it came to ideological violence.

Source: CNN February 27, 2026 14:55 UTC