The head of French diplomacy, Jean-Noël Barrot, urged the European Commission on Wednesday to act with “the greatest firmness” against interference, in particular that of Elon Musk, in the European public debate, failing which Paris could take itself measures.
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While the boss of we gave it to him to deter this behavior.”
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“Either the European Commission applies with the greatest firmness the laws that we have given ourselves to protect our public space, or it does not and then it will have to agree to return to the Member States of the EU, to return to France, the capacity to do so,” declared Mr. Barrot on France Inter radio.
“We need to wake up,” he insisted.
Elon Musk has intervened with a bang for several weeks in European political life. On his social network, the billionaire has multiplied his positions in favor of the German far-right party AfD and against the British Prime Minister, Labor Keir Starmer.
The French foreign minister was also asked about US President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to Denmark’s autonomous territory of Greenland.
Greenland is a territory of the European Union. There is no question of the EU letting any other nation in the world attack its sovereign borders,” he said.
“If you ask me if I think the United States will invade Greenland, the answer is no. Have we entered an era which sees the return of the law of the strongest, the answer is yes,” said Mr. Barrot.
“We must wake up, strengthen ourselves, in a world governed by the law of the strongest,” he repeated.
Donald Trump reiterated on Tuesday his ambitions to annex the Panama Canal and Greenland, by force if necessary. The president-elect urged Denmark to “give up” its resource-rich autonomous territory, drawing a firm response from Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who recalled that “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders.”
Located in the Arctic Ocean, the second largest island in the world after Australia (2.2 million square kilometers), populated by approximately 55,000 inhabitants, has its flag, its language, its culture and its institutions.
With mainland Denmark and the Faroe Islands, Greenland has formed the “Community of the Kingdom” of Denmark, without being part of the European Union, since 1985.
