Emmanuel Macron seemed to be criticising the EU for being too accommodating to US aggression on Greenland in his Davos speech, military analyst Michael Clarke says.
The French president and all European leaders will be “laying out their stall” on Greenland at the World Economic Forum this week.
“He’s got this idea of a grand meeting in Paris at the end of the Davos meeting,” Clarke tells presenter Jayne Secker.
“I suspect that won’t happen but it’s typical Macron to give it a go, because he sees himself as an architect of big ideas of security, whereas the British and the Germans, for instance, are much more pragmatic and very practical and French ideas rather grand.”
Europe’s leaders will try to push back and spell out their “red lines” in dealing with the US in Davos, Clarke says.
“Usually, the Europeans are laying out red lines in the way they’re going to deal with Russia or China, and here they are in public having to do it now in relation to the United States. That’s a pretty remarkable situation.”
Watch Clarke’s full analysis