POLICY – ” Ready to work together. » The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron published a message on social networks this Wednesday, November 6, to congratulate Donald Trump after his (very probable) victory in the American presidential election.
« Ready to work together as we have been able to do for four years. With your beliefs and with mine. With respect and ambition. For more peace and prosperity », Writes the French head of state, who already knew the Republican at the White House between 2017 and 2020.
Like Emmanuel Macron, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu warmly congratulated Donald Trump.
Following this first message, the French president explained that he had spoken with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to, he said, still on social networks, “ work for a more united, stronger, more sovereign Europe in this new context. »
European response
This is the message that his camp has been hammering home since the first results last night. Guest of RTL in the early morning, government spokesperson Maud Bregeon, for example, pleaded for a start from the European Union in the face of this new situation.
“This should ask us not about what the United States is going to do, but about what Europe is capable of doing. In a certain number of absolutely key sectors, defense, reindustrialization, decarbonization, we must take our destiny in hand”she explained, emphasizing that this answer was also valid regardless of the winner.
In the same spirit, French Minister for European Affairs Benjamin Haddad assures France Inter that“we will have to find ways to work on our common interests but fundamentally (…) the answer lies with us. »
“Europeans cannot accept that their security will be decided without them, that tomorrow a capitulation will be imposed on the Ukrainians without the Ukrainians, without the Europeans”he added, in reference to one of the major fears caused by the election of the American billionaire: the disengagement of the United States in Ukraine.
Elsewhere in the French political class, reactions are diverse. If the far right struggles to hide its satisfaction, the left says it is dismayed. The election of Trump “is one of those tipping points that shape history”reacted to socialist MEP Raphaël Glucksmann on social networks. And to add: “We are now, in Europe, alone facing our destiny. It’s up to us to show what we are and aspire to be. »
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