French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that Europe and the United States are moving closer together on key security challenges, describing the current period as a "moment of reconvergence" ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara.
Macron said recent diplomatic engagements had helped bring European and American positions closer together.
"We are in a moment of reconvergence between Europeans and Americans," he said after a meeting of the E5 group of major European countries in Berlin – France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the U.K.
Macron said the process began at the recent G7 summit and continued at last week's European Council meeting, adding that leaders would seek to consolidate that unity at the summit and a July 13 meeting of the coalition of the willing supporting Ukraine.
He said a significant development was that all G7 members had signed a common text for the first time in 18 months.
