Overview

• Two women and a man entered the Musée Grévin as tourists before donning worker outfits to smuggle Macron’s €40,000 wax likeness through an emergency exit.
• On June 2, activists staged the display at Paris’s Russian Embassy with banners declaring “Ukraine is burning and business goes on.”
• Greenpeace framed the action as a challenge to France’s gas and fertilizer imports from Russia, which it says contradict Macron’s public support for Ukraine.
• The EU is set to propose tariffs on Russian fertilizer imports as farmers simultaneously call for lifting duties on other fertilizer sources.
• Critics note Macron’s early climate commitments have waned amid deepening commercial ties with Moscow on energy and agriculture.