Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended the ceremony in France to commemorate the D-Day invasion and seek aid from Western leaders.
As 50 million people are expected to cast their ballot for the EU election, we break down what's at stake for the vote in France.
Macron's centrist party, Renaissance, is projected to come a distant second in this week's European elections.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany would not prohibit Ukrainian attacks on Russian military targets, saying Ukraine "is allowed to defend itself."
Germany and France, the EU's largest economies, have long been seen as the driving force of European integration, despite occasional policy differences.
“Our main objective is for our country to obtain full sovereignty,” said a pro-independence party leader in the France-controlled Pacific archipelago.
French President Emmanuel Macron will visit his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin on Sunday in what is seen as the highest level of diplomatic courtesy...
Paris has deployed around 3,000 gendarmes, police and other security forces to the archipelago since the violence began on 13 May.