MADRID Jan. 8 () –
The French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, has called on the European Commission to act “with the utmost firmness” against foreign “interference”, in an allusion to Elon Musk’s latest criticism that also connects with a strong defense of “sovereign borders”, taking into account, for example, that Greenland, targeted by tycoon Donald Trump, belongs to Denmark and is “EU territory”.
“In no case will the EU allow another nation in the world, whatever it may be, to attack its sovereign borders,” in an interview on France Inter in which he was asked about the statements made on Monday by the president-elect of the United States, who did not rule out using military means to take control of Greenland or the Panama Canal.
Barrot believes that it is time to “wake up” in the EU, to stop the “interference or threats of interference” that Musk, Trump’s ally, may pose. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has already publicly criticized the businessman’s political positions on internal issues of European countries.
“If the European Commission does not know how to protect us, it must return to the member states, to France, the ability to protect themselves,” warned the minister, who suggested to Musk that, as a future member of the Trump Administration, he be careful when speaking out. so openly about his political sympathies in other countries.
In this sense, he has pointed out that the owner of the social network ). In the latter case, Barrot added, “the American Republican Party would have to assume the responsibility of linking its destiny to that of a party that represents everything it has always fought against.”
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