Emmanuel Macron launched a response and a frontal attack against Donald Trump in a strategic area for the future of Europe.
The French president spoke in these terms concerning the behavior of the American president: “France firmly denounces … the decisions of the United States to withdraw/limit the visas of Thierry Breton and four European personalities. “These measures constitute intimidation and repression against European digital sovereignty.”
Macron could not be more clear and direct. Thierry Breton, former French minister, former European commissioner, former manager of very large French and European multinational companies, He is one of the great European defendersnational and institutional regulation of international digital platforms.
From his positions, for twenty years, from his current position as emeritus analyst of international reality, Breton defends the “regulation” of digital platforms. In Washington, Trump made the decision to deprive the former French commissioner of your visa, the validity of your passport, refusing you entry to the United States.
As a national and European issue, Macron did not hesitate to unearth the verbal hatchet against Trump, taking the underlying problem back to its original and most divisive root.
The president is “accompanied” by his government, his ministers and the entire national political class. Simply exceptional detail.
Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Roland Descure, Minister of the Economy, they denounce in chorus “with the greatest firmness”, a decision which, according to him, constitutes “an attack on fundamental freedoms”. The confrontation and the political battle extend to the very conception of freedom.
Nathalie Loiseau, diplomat and leading MEP, insists on the continental dimension of the problem: “Let us not be mistaken… after the measure against Breton, what is at stake is the sovereignty and freedom of Europeans. “Europe must react to defend its sovereignty and its freedoms.”
For once, all national political parties, from the far left to the far right, They adopt a very similar toneagainst Trump’s decisions.
On the far right, Sébastien Chenu, vice-president of the National Rally (AN), Marine Le Pen’s partysaid: “I think the Trump administration is not only wrong about the substance of the problem. He is also wrong in the image he gives of the United States. This is a highly symbolic “breakup”.
Le Pen and his party supported, with nuances, all or almost all of Trump’s major initiatives. Denouncing a strategic “error”, Chenu highlights a broader difference which affects the relations of France and all of Europe with Washington.
The traditional right, socialists and communists they all use the same terminology: “This is an extremely serious decision. “France and the European Union must react immediately to this unprecedented attack on our sovereignty.”
Raphaël Glucksmann, son of the famous philosopher, MEP, reacted as follows: “We are not a colony of the United States. We are Europeans. We must defend our laws, our principles, our interests. “The scandalous sanction against Thierry Breton is a fundamental attack on our sovereignty.”
Beyond the reactions of the EU and other European countries, the reactions of France, with Macron at the helm, They seem to announce the “flag” of a “battle axe” against a Trumpist decision which is much more than symbolic, since it affects the deepest relations between the United States and Europe.
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