We do prefer respect to bullies, Macron says at Davos as Trump tensions mount [View all]
Source: Yahoo/Euronews
Europe "should not hesitate to deploy" tools at its disposal to protect its interests, French President Emmanuel Macron said in his address at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday, amid diplomatic fallout from private messages made public and escalating trade threats from Donald Trump in the run-up to the US president's own highly anticipated speech.
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He opened his speech by saying, "It's time of peace, stability and predictablilty," to considerable laughter in the room. Yet we have approached "instability and imbalance," Macron added, stating that "conflict has become normalised."
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He circled back to the topic towards the end of his otherwise economy-heavy address. "It’s not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism," Macron said. "This is a time of cooperation in order to fix these three global challenges for our fellow citizens."
"We do prefer respect to bullies," Macron concluded. "And we do prefer rule of law to brutality."
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