Emmanuel Macron urged a shift away from imperialism in his Davos speech, which did not mention Trump by name.
warned international leaders that “international law is trampled underfoot” in the current world order, urging a shift away from imperialism in his hotly anticipated Davos speech in which he did not directly mention President Donald Trump by name.
Newsom rants about European leaders 'rolling over' on Trump: 'Handing out crowns' Johnson stresses friendship with UK in address to Parliament as Trump lambastes Starmer's Chagos Island deal“We shift towards a world without rules, where international law is trampled underfoot, and where the only law that seems to matter is that of the strongest, and imperial ambitions are resurfacing,” Macron said. After joking that the world is at peace, Macron called the current time “very concerning.” He warned that as Russia’s war with Ukraine persists and conflicts “in the Middle East and across Africa” continue, world leaders are “killing” collective governance structures. He took sharp aim at Trump’s threatened tariffs over Greenland in this section of the speech. “Without collective governance, cooperation gives way to relentless competition. Competition from the United States of America, through trade agreements that undermine our export interests, demand maximum concessions, and openly aim to weaken and subordinate Europe, combined with an endless accumulation of new tariffs that are fundamentally unacceptable, even more so when they are used as leverage against territorial sovereignty,” Macron said.. Trump told reporters on Monday that Macron is “going to be out of office very soon” and threatened a 200% tariff on French wine and champagne. Later, in the very early hours of Tuesday morning, Trump posted an apparent, friendly text from Macron inviting the president to dinner in Paris for talks. “My friend, We are totally in line on Syria. We can do great things on Iran. I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland. Let us try to build great things,” Macron In his Tuesday speech, Macron said France joined the mutual military training exercise in Greenland “without threatening anyone,” but in support of Denmark. Macron also railed against the notion of threatening tariffs between allies, something in Trump’s playbook, as a policy that “doesn’t make sense.” He also called it “crazy” that the EU could be in the position to implement the “The crazy thing is that we can be put in a situation to use the anti-coercion mechanism for the very first time, vis-à-vis the U.S., if they put additional tariffs. Can you imagine that? This is crazy,” Macron said.of himself, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Vice President JD Vance overnight, marking Greenland with an American flag, standing next to a sign that reads “Greenland, US Territory, EST. 2026.”
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