{"id":253734,"date":"2025-07-10T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253734\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T14:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:50:14","slug":"macron-tells-uk-it-was-stronger-when-it-was-part-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253734\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron tells UK it was stronger when it was part of\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/french\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French<\/a> president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/emmanuel-macron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emmanuel Macron<\/a> took a swipe at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/brexit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brexit<\/a> during his state banquet address at London&#8217;s Guildhall on Wednesday (9 July).<\/p>\n<p>Macron said: &#8220;I&#8217;m very respectful of the voice of the people and the choice your country made nine years ago. But I have to say, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/european-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Union<\/a> was stronger with you, and you were stronger with the European Union.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The French president and Sir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/keir-starmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keir Starmer<\/a> will round off the three-day state visit with a press conference in London on Thursday (10 July) at which they are expected to announce new plans to tackle small boat crossings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French president Emmanuel Macron took a swipe at Brexit during his state banquet address at London&#8217;s Guildhall on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[1500,802,748,4044,2000,299,5187,1699,5686,4884,5681,12,5683,5682,5684,5685,16,15,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-253734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-daily-news","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-global-news","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-inkl","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-news-app","21":"tag-news-headlines","22":"tag-news-today","23":"tag-today-news","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114829500468861977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}