Macron: UK and France are dangerously dependent on US and China

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1. ***From The Times:***

   Britain and France are dangerously dependent on the US, President Macron has warned, as he called on the UK not to “stay on the sidelines” of Europe.

   In an address to parliament, the French president said that both countries were too reliant on America for the technologies of the future and attacked President Trump’s tariff war. He also said that both countries were depending too much on China.

   He signalled that France was prepared to move closer to the UK, pledging the “best ever co-operation” on immigration and a new joint defence deal.

   “What is at stake today in Europe is our ability to invest in key technologies of the future to avoid strategic dependencies and disengagement that would put us at risk of a slow death,” he said.

   “If we still depend on both China and the US, I think we have a clear view of our future and the future of our children.”

   Macron urged Britain to become more European in the face of these threats, building on the government’s recent reset with the EU

2. France this is like the 9th time you’ve talked about European independance. If you want to do it you need to actually DO IT.

3. France says this every year and then does nothing

4. Based as always but also you need to actually get off your arse and do something, especially as the leader of a political system where, legally, you *are the leader* unlike Starmer.

5. When I say something like that in /r/Europe, I am being called Putin’s bot.

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