(ANSA-AFP) - PARIS, APR 25 - French President Emmanuel Macron
on Thursday warned that Europe faced an existential threat from
Russian aggression, calling on the continent to adopt a
"credible" defence strategy less dependent on the United States.
He described Russia's behaviour after its invasion of Ukraine as
"uninhibited" and said it was no longer clear where Moscow's
"limits" lay.
Macron also sounded the alarm on what he described as
disrespect of global trade rules by both Russia and China,
calling on the European Union to revise its trade policy. "Our
Europe, today, is mortal and it can die," he said. "It can die
and this depends only on our choices," Macron said, warning that
Europe was "not armed against the risks we face" in a world
where the "rules of the game have changed". "Over the next
decade... the risk is immense of (Europe) being weakened or even
relegated," he added, also pointing to the risk of Iran
obtaining a nuclear weapon. (ANSA-AFP).
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