French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a fundamental shift in European policy, arguing that the continent must “wake up” to a new reality where the US, Russia, and China are all categorically opposed to European interests.

Speaking in Athens during a discussion with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday, April 24, Macron described the current period as a “unique moment” of geopolitical pressure.

He emphasized that the tension with Washington is an “historical trend” likely to persist beyond the term of US President Donald Trump. “We must be a little more self-confident and propose our own agenda,” Macron stated, urging European nations to act with greater unity to protect their own interests.

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  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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    Seems like a useful thing to say, though, regardless of who says it, right?

    As a non-european, I’d like to see european resistance to the fascist forces of the US and Russia.

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      The major European benefited from American war of aggressions over the decades which their big corporations making money from Iraq and Libya. They only start criticizing Trump once he started threating Greenland and monopolizing imperialist benefits . The biggest threat right now is Israel wanting to destoy a whole region and France is profiting from the antisemite attacks to pass laws limiting anti Israel colonialism and genocide actions

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        France is profiting from the antisemite attacks to pass laws limiting anti Israel colonialism and genocide actions

        That was ditched. At least until summer.

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          It’s getting ditched from being subject to a vote. It’s looking like they’re trying to use “this one weird trick that the constitution allows as a tool of democracy” to move this to a closed, limited vote, that is expected to pass in complete silence without parliament being allowed to discuss it.

          Or anyway that’s the alarmist short of it and it might fall off after all, but we really shouldn’t just presume that it’s done and resolved just because we won’t hear about it again.

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      … fascist forces of the US and Russia.

      Don’t forget the third fascist force.