🇫🇷President @EmmanuelMacron's much previewed speech on the future of 🇪🇺 is about to start. Watch live with English interpretation here: youtube.com/live/tkDUSYHoK…
#Macron opens his speech by saying this. isa follow-up to his speech about Europe 7 years ago. He says he wanted to see more progress by now. But he notes: "European sovereignty - a term that may have seemed very French 7 years ago" has now been embraced. x.com/emmanuelmacron…
#Macron opens his speech by saying this. isa follow-up to his speech about Europe 7 years ago. He says he wanted to see more progress by now. But he notes: "European sovereignty - a term that may have seemed very French 7 years ago" has now been embraced. x.com/emmanuelmacron…
Macron says the EU has weathered several crises over the past 7 years, including #Brexit (plus Covid & Russia). But he says the union remained strong in the face of these challenges, and as a result, nobody speaks about leaving the union anymore.
Macron says🇪🇺should be proud of #GreenDeal, now under attack from the right in the run-up to the #EUelections He notes🇪🇺is the only major economy to have legislation prepared for the green transition, while other "superpowers" (🇺🇸) have set goals but no legislation to get there.
But #Macron says 🇪🇺 is now under serious threat from geopolitical developments (read: Russia, Trump, China). "Europe is mortal, it can die. It only depends on our choices. And these choices have to be made now." "We must explain how serious the matter is."
Macron says Europe must make itself a credible independent partner for 3rd countries. "Europe must show that it's never going to be the lapdog for the United States when we speak to the other regions of the world."
Macron praises recently-adopted EU #MigrationPact, saying it will normalise the situation for migrants "who are escaping tragedies, [now] at the mercy of people traffickers" "Here we must have strong cooperation. We must register & monitor migrants, and if need be, deport them"
@DaveKeating EU is the lapdog for the USA. #Macron #Europe