During his presentation on the main axes of future foreign policy, this Monday, to ambassadors, President Emmanuel Macron spoke of the new American government to come.
Donald Trump “knows that he has a solid ally in France, an ally whom he does not disesteem”, “who believes in Europe” and has a “lucid ambition” for the transatlantic relationship, Emmanuel Macron declared this Monday , two weeks before his arrival at the White House.
“From 2016 to 2020, France knew how to work with President Trump,” underlined the French head of state before the return of the populist tribune. “If we decide to be weak and defeatist, there is little chance of being respected by the United States of America of President Trump”, “it is up to us to know how to cooperate with the choice that was made by the people American,” he added during the annual meeting of French ambassadors.
Emmanuel Macron was more virulent against Trump's future minister of “governmental efficiency”. Without naming him, he accused the boss of
“Ten years ago, what if we had been told that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would support a new reactionary international movement and intervene directly in elections, including in Germany? Who would have imagined it? », Launched President Macron during a speech to French ambassadors, in reference to the American billionaire's continued support for the German far-right party, AfD.
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2 The Middle East under close scrutiny
“We must look at the change of regime in Syria without naivety,” Macron said, specifying that France “will not abandon” the Kurdish fighters who fought “against terrorist groups”. Concerning Iran, it is the “main strategic and security challenge” in the Middle East, believes the French president.
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