PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that the United States was “breaking free from international rules” and “gradually turning away” from some of its allies.
Macron delivered his annual speech to French ambassadors at the Elysee Palace as European powers scrambling to come up with a coordinated response to US assertive foreign policy in the Western hemisphere following Washington’s capture of Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro and Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland.
“The United States is an established power, but one that is gradually turning away from some of its allies and breaking free from international rules that it was still promoting recently,” Macron told ambassadors at the Elysee Palace.
“Multilateral institutions are functioning less and less effectively,” Macron added. “We are living in a world of great powers with a real temptation to divide up the world.”
Macron said Europe must protect its interests and urged the “consolidation” of European regulation of the tech sector.
