During a speech in Châteauneuf-sur-Isère, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of France’s La France Insoumise party, sharply criticized French President Emmanuel Macron and five other European leaders for meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington earlier in the week. Mélenchon accused them of "licking Trump's boots" and claimed that the show of European unity is "not real," arguing that the group does not represent the entire European Union. “No one asked them to go!” he said, dismissing the visit as unmandated and politically misleading.