The French president warns of growing threats from China, Russia and now the US, saying Europe faces a "wake-up call".

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Europe to assert itself on the world stage, saying it is time to start acting like a “power”.

In the face of growing threats from China, Russia and now the US, he told a group of European newspapers that the continent faced a “wake-up call”.

"Are we ready to become a power? This is the question in the field of economy and finance, in defence and security, and in our democratic systems.

“In another era we might have said it is the moment to ‘assume our majority’,” he said ahead of an EU summit in Brussels later this week.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    He’s right.

    They need to focus on making every European nation a nuclear power. You can’t trust the US when we’re on our second consecutive brain-damaged president in a row.

    • Parade du Grotesque@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah, what a fantastic idea: let’s give the Orban’s and the Meloni’s of Europe (stable geniuses one and all) things that go boom and make a nice mushroom cloud.

      Fantastic.

      We already have two nuclear powers in Europe.

    • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      They need to focus on making every European nation a nuclear power.

      The power of nuclear weapons comes from being used in a retaliation strike. For that a submarine is needed. Soon space weapons are needed to disable the counter-measures.

      Just 10 bombs and 10 bombers is not enough.