Not for the first time, London seems determined to be more royalist than the king, or rather more Atlanticist than Washington. Britain's desire to reintegrate France into the common defence of Europe is, if sincere, entirely laudable.
He is of the old school - Atlanticist, outward-looking, a skilled diplomat.
If the British Labour party is now more Atlanticist than the Americans, one could perhaps say that the French Socialist government is now more Gaullist than the Gaullists.