Besides, despite the clear answers of the main European powers on this subject, France continues to be stubborn in this project.
Zbigniew Brzeziński wrote already in the 1980s
"France could become the herald of the European idea, identify with this ideal and, thanks to this assimilation, conform the European project to its conception of the nation. The country that had invented the notion of the sovereign nation-state and elevated nationalism to the rank of civic religion found it only natural that it should be responsible - with the same passion that it had previously invested in the notion of the fatherland - for the construction of an independent and united Europe. The greatness of a Europe under French leadership would then be equivalent to the greatness
of France itself. "