There is a huge risk that Europe may be weakened in the next decade / Article

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The French leader also stated that, in his opinion, two world powers – the United States and China – have decided not to respect international trade rules, warning that this could lead Europe to poverty.

“I say this in very simple terms, but this is the reality after the passage of the Anti-Inflation Act (US). For 20 years, we have jointly called for China to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) in order to force the other major trading and economic power to comply with our rules. But “It looks like the world’s biggest economy (the US) has suddenly decided it’s going to do the same thing as China. And that’s why we can’t achieve our goals anymore,” Macron said.

Addressing the gathering, the French president also paid a lot of attention to the security situation in the European Union.

“It can ‘die’ and it depends only on our choice,” Macron said, warning that Europe is not armed for the risks it faces in a world where the rules of the game have changed.

“In the next decade (..) there is a huge risk that (Europe) could be weakened,” Macron said in a speech at the Sorbonne University in Paris. This speech was presented as the president’s vision for the future of Europe.

Macron called for Europe to break out of a “strategic minority” that has made it too dependent on Russia for energy and the US for security.

The French president described Russia’s actions after its renewed invasion of Ukraine as reckless and said it was no longer clear where Moscow’s “borders” were. He emphasized that “Russia does not win the war of aggression in Ukraine” as a necessary condition for European security.

“We ourselves must build this strategic concept of reliable European defense,” Macron said, adding that Europe cannot be a “vassal” of the United States.

He announced that he will ask European partners to submit proposals in the coming months, and added that Europe also needs its own capabilities in the field of cyber defense and cyber security.

Macron has expressed the view that European suppliers should be preferred in the purchase of military equipment and supported the idea of ​​a European loan to finance the effort.

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