Lebanon PM Meets French Envoy to Consolidate US-Brokered Ceasefire

🇫🇷 BEIRUT — France enters the Lebanon ceasefire just as the US needs someone else to hold it. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Paris moving in post-ceasefire signals Washington wants European cover to free up diplomatic bandwidth for the MOU track. France has UNIFIL skin in the game and Lebanon debt leverage — useful for compliance enforcement. But French involvement also means a second interlocutor Hezbollah can play against Washington if the framework wobbles.