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How do you want us to increase security and defense expenditure if we are in a trade war?”
Come on, you cannot have a trade war with China and Europe at the same time. I hope I convinced him,
Macron told Fox News in an interview after meeting Trump in Washington Monday VAT is not a tariff, and I argued it,
I hope I did convince him on trade and tariffs,
Macron told Trump’s favorite TV station In a way this trip was a last chance … the Europeans are very worried and he went there to avoid the worst. He is the only one who can do this, firstly the Germans had an elections and the British have left Europe,
He had consulted all the other Europeans at the very start of the week plus a few non-Europeans, he arrived armed with a certain number of arms and also it was the day the EU was able to agree a new set of sanctions against Russia,
Blanchemaison told FranceInfo I was ambassador during the first Donald Trump administration and I can attest that he [Macron] knew how to maintain a good working relation.”
It was mission impossible and he did his best. Did he succeed? We will see in the coming days.”
Asked if he thought Macron’s mission had succeeded, Araud said Emmanuel Macron was playing a complex game in Washington … preserving and relaunching the personal relationship he formed with the American president during their first term in office. And at the same time defending Ukraine and reinvigorating a transatlantic alliance weakened by an administration in a hurry to disengage from the old continent,
The good understanding displayed between the two leaders in reality masks deep-seated differences that were clearly visible on the same day at the United Nations,
If Russia is allowed to win, we will live in a world where might is right, where borders can be redrawn by force, where aggressors think they can act with impunity.
Britain's UN Ambassador Barbara Woodward warned the council My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA,
There is good reason for President Trump to re-engage with President Putin,
I think the arrival of President Trump is a game changer. And I think he has the deterrence capacity of the US to re-engage with Russia … my concern is that we have to go fast. But we need something first, a truce, which could be assessed, and checked, and full-fledged negotiation.”
After visiting the White House, Macron sought out another venue to get to Trump — Fox News, telling Bret Baier The fact that there are Europeans that are ready to engage to provide for these security guarantees and now there’s a clear American message that the US, as an ally, is ready to provide that solidarity for that approach — that’s a turning point,
Russia continues to trample on international law and the United Nations Charter by pursuing its aggression against Ukraine,
I mean, that’s what I do. I do deals. My whole life is deals. That’s all I know, is deals. And I know when somebody wants to make it and when somebody doesn’t,
Trump said at a news conference with Macron on Monday We don’t want to rile Trump, that would be totally counterproductive both to our interests and those of Ukrainian and European security,
one aide told the Guardian They didn’t do anything either” to end the war
he said during an interview with Fox Business earlier this week I would never have believed that I would have to say something like that on television,