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Macron: Failure of Europe to Define Its Own Destiny
Europe can no longer rely on US for security, says Emmanuel Macron | The Guardian - Aug. 27, 2018 |
French president to push for greater defence cooperation among European Union members
The first major political test for his new centrist movement, La République en Marche, is next spring's European elections, where he is hoping to prove that the centre ground can limit the rise of far-right parties and Eurosceptics in Europe.
But Macron conceded that much had changed in the past year. He warned of an "awakening of nationalists and extremes" in Europe and hit out at what he called US president Donald Trump's "aggressive isolationism".
Macron's comments follow Trump's repeated distancing himself from the NATO military alliance, which groups the US with most of Europe and has underpinned European security since the second world war. "The partner with whom Europe built the new post-world war order appears to be turning its back on this shared history," he told French ambassadors gathered at the Élysée Palace.
Macron defended his policy of maintaining a close relationship with Trump, who has shunned European allies by pulling out of a global climate pact, imposing extraterritorial sanctions on Iran and imposing tariffs on EU steel and aluminium.
Macron said communication with Washington had to be open and constructive, but European countries had to work together to come up with alternatives to hardline isolationist politics. "The question is not about whether I grab Trump by the arm at the next international summit; the question is, what are we going to reinvent?"
He said moments such as the UK's Brexit vote, the Trump election or the success of Hungary's Viktor Orbán were linked to a crisis in modern globalisation and it was now up to countries to overhaul global governance and make globalisation more "human".
Mike Pompeo's EU troublemaker tour: for Central Europeans, visit is a seal of approval | Politico - Feb. 11, 2019 |
Mike Pompeo leaves Sunday on a five-nation tour of Europe that will begin in Hungary and Slovakia where he will raise those concerns and the importance of promoting democracy and the rule of law to counter Beijing and Moscow's efforts to pull the countries away from the West and sow divisions in the European Union and NATO.
"Breaking up Europe"
The centerpiece of the trip will be a Conference on the Future of the Middle East in Poland that is expected to focus on Iran and will also be attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump's Mideast peace team of senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt.
Emmanuel Macron warns Europe: NATO is becoming brain-dead | The Economist - 7 Nov. 2019 |
America is turning its back on the European project. Time to wake up, the French president tells The Economist
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has warned European countries that they can no longer rely on America to defend NATO allies. "What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO" Mr Macron declares in a blunt interview with The Economist. Europe stands on "the edge of a precipice", he says, and needs to start thinking of itself strategically as a geopolitical power; otherwise we will "no longer be in control of our destiny."
During the hour-long interview, conducted in his gilt-decorated office at the Elysée Palace in Paris on October 21st, the president argues that it is high time for Europe to "wake up". He was asked whether he believed in the effectiveness of Article Five, the idea that if one NATO member is attacked all would come to its aid, which many analysts think underpins the alliance's deterrent effect. "I don't know," he replies, "but what will Article Five mean tomorrow?"
Macron criticised by US and Germany over Nato 'brain death' claims | The Guardian - Nov. 7, 2019 |
French president says in interview that Europe is in danger of disappearing geopolitically
"A self-fulfilling prophecy - anno 2023"
To choose for war instead of diplomacy, economic ties and peace ... one is both foolish and brainless. The end is total devastation.
Macron celebrating the Munich Security Conference ...
Emmanuel Macron on Ukraine: "Crushing Russia has never been France's position"
President Emmanuel Macron discusses the aftermath of the conflict in Ukraine in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche, Le Figaro and France-Inter. For him, neither side can win entirely and the Europeans will be the main victims of an endless conflict.
Emmanuel Macron sur l'Ukraine : « Écraser la Russie, cela n'a jamais été la position de la France »| JDD |
Le président Emmanuel Macron évoque les suites du conflit en Ukraine dans un entretien accordé au Journal du Dimanche, au Figaro et à France-Inter. Pour lui, aucun des deux camps ne peut l'emporter entièrement et les Européens seront les principales victimes d'un conflit sans fin.
Ce vendredi soir, il a l'impression d'avoir marqué des points. Non seulement vis-à-vis du chancelier Scholz et du président polonais Andrej Duda, avec qui il vient de dîner, mais aussi face à ses autres interlocuteurs rencontrés dans les coulisses de la Conférence sur la sécurité de Munich, qui se réunit pour la première fois depuis l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie. Dans l'après-midi, il a martelé que la Russie ne pouvait et ne devait gagner la guerre, que le destin de l'Europe se jouait en Ukraine. Dans l'avion qui le ramène vers Paris, il a enlevé sa veste et remonté les poignets de sa chemise blanche. Il s'explique point par point.
ESCALATION UPON ESCALATION AS GOALS VANISH IN MORE BLOODSHED
The significant evolution in 2022 of Emmanuel Macron ...
