Burkhard like Macron's Africa envoy Jean-Marie Bockel argues strongly for deepening ties between Africa and Europe...

It incinerated much of the goodwill earned through the painstaking diplomacy of his envoy Jean-Marie Bockel last year...

President Macron's Special Envoy Jean-Marie Bockel had proposed several options for cutting French troops on the numbers and the timeline...

After French President Emmanuel Macron's ‘personal envoy' to Africa Jean-Marie Bockel visited Libreville in March and discussed the reduction of France's 350-strong military contingent Gabon launched a charm offensive towards Paris (AC Vol 65 No 19 President Macron plans military cuts)...

President Emmanuel Macron has been weighing up the recommendations from Jean-Marie Bockel – a former development and defence junior minister whom he appointed in February as his special envoy to Gabon Senegal Côte d'Ivoire and Chad which all host French bases (AC Vol 65 No 16 Moscow sees a year of transition)...

France is bullish ‘we have to stay of course we will stay' said Jean-Marie Bockel President Emmanuel Macron's personal envoy on whether France will maintain its 1 000 troops in the country...

Foreign policy is typically the sole domain of the Elysée Palace but Senators Jeanny Lorgeoux and Jean-Marie Bockel who is also a former Cooperation Minister have sketched out a path that Paris can take to avoid hesitation when faced with trends pushing France in different directions...

Sarkozy moved his first Cooperation Minister the Christian socialist Jean-Marie Bockel in March 2008 after he had upset the late President Omar Bongo with remarks about the end of Françafrique (AC Vol 49 No 7)...

Joyandet led the assertion of realpolitik in Africa policy after his predecessor Jean- Marie Bockel seemed to take Sarkozy’s promises to reform the Françafrique system a little too literally...