3 days ago · PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron painted a veneer of European unity by inviting a small number of handpicked European leaders to the Élysée Palace, while the Trump administration sidelined the continent by moving ahead with direct negotiations on Tuesday with Russia on the war in Ukraine.. One question loomed: Could Europe take charge of its own security, or would it remain ...

1 day ago · Europe’s leaders and officials have been blindsided by a staggering collapse in American support for Ukraine in the past week. ... Starmer and Macron will be expected to pitch Trump on those ...

1 day ago · PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said that he intends to tell U.S. counterpart Donald Trump that it’s in the joint interest of Americans and Europeans not to “be weak” in the face of Russian leader Vladimir Putin amid U.S.-led negotiations to end the nearly three-year war in Ukraine.. Macron will travel to Washington to meet with Trump on Monday, the White House said.

3 days ago · Mr. Macron had already assembled a dozen European leaders in Paris on Monday after Mr. Trump and his new team angered and confused America’s traditional allies by suggesting that the United ...

3 days ago · From Macron’s push for European-led defense to Keir Starmer’s “third way” diplomacy, Giorgia Meloni’s balancing act between Brussels and Washington, and Olaf Scholz ’s resistance to ...

Jan 21, 2025 · CESSON-SEVIGNE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron called on Europe Monday to “wake up” and spend more on defense in order to reduce its reliance on the United States for its security, in a speech to the French military as Donald Trump returns to …

Apr 25, 2024 · Europe must escape from its self-imposed naivety or face the risk of dying. That was the stark warning at the heart of a major speech on the EU by French President Emmanuel Macron Thursday in...

Apr 24, 2024 · As the future of Europe is decided now, the President Emmanuel Macron insisted on three topics: A Europe that assumes its cultural and intellectual model. YouTube is disabled. Europe speech. Seven years after the Sorbonne speech, I wanted to come here, to this same place, to come back over our achievements and talk about our future.

1 day ago · Macron, who also took office in 2017, began to propose the formation of a "true European army" as an alternative to NATO and famously warned of the "brain death" of the alliance in 2019.

Despite German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's rejection of a European peace mission, considering it "premature" and "inappropriate," Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Keir Starmer plan to create a ...