2023-06-01 02:03:00
[パリ ３１日 ロイター] – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that France should have listened more to Eastern European countries, which warned of Russia’s belligerence even before it invaded Ukraine.
Addressing a forum of the think tank GLOBSEC in Bratislava, Slovakia, he said there should be no division between the ‘old Europe’ and the ‘new Europe’ with Eastern and Western members of the European Union (EU) in mind. Emphasize otherwise.
“We lost the opportunity to hear you, but that’s the end of it,” he said.
Macron has been criticized by Eastern European countries and others for saying in the past that Russia “should not be humiliated” in international efforts to end its aggression in Ukraine.
In his speech, he also said Europe should build its own defense industry and move away from its dependence on the United States. “I want to thank the United States, but will this administration last forever?” he asked.
The war in Ukraine was “far from over, but it is certain that Ukraine will not be conquered,” he said, adding that the Russian invasion was “already a geopolitical failure”.
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