{"id":253905,"date":"2025-07-10T16:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253905\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T16:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:20:19","slug":"macron-makes-brexit-swipe-during-state-banquet-speech-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253905\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron makes Brexit swipe during state banquet speech | News"},"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":253906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-253905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114829854190127528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253905","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=253905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}