“Donald Trump is forcing France and Europe to come together,” said François-Noël Buffet, Minister to the Minister of the Interior

Donald Trump's threats to impose higher customs duties on Europe are being taken seriously by the government. Political guest of franceinfo this Wednesday, January 22, François-Noël Buffet, minister to the Minister of the Interior, believes that this “forces France itself and Europe to stand together and resist these announcement movements”. “It might wake us up, which is a good thing.”adds the minister.

Furthermore, as a former minister to the Minister responsible for Overseas Territories, François-Noël Buffet is at the origin of the emergency law in Mayotte, a text scrutinized by La France insoumise, which sees it as a “reconstruction of the archipelago at a discount”. “They are in controversy and they are wrong”the minister replied this Wednesday, specifying that the text “prepared after the events” of Cyclone Chido, is “intended simply to make administrative procedures more flexible to save time on all the delays that we will have to face, particularly during the reconstruction period of Mayotte”. “This is a first step which is absolutely necessary legally”he adds.

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