A big question mark hangs over transatlantic relations: the upcoming French presidential elections. Both the far-left and ultra-conservative French presidential candidates hold deeply disturbing positions on Russia and NATO, and the incumbent, President Emmanuel Macron, is anything but reliable on these crucial issues. With the Ukraine crisis already showing cracks in European solidarity, it is hard to envision an election outcome where France makes the challenge of keeping a Europe “whole, free and at peace” any easier.