french president Emmanuel Macron has been booed this Tuesday during a presentation on his two-day visit to Netherlands shouting “President of violence and hypocrisy!”.
The scene has taken place in the Nexus Institute The Hague, a cultural center where Macron has come to give a speech on “The Future of Europe”and has addressed issues such as the sovereignty of the continent in terms of security, after his comments about the role of China as a world power and intermediary in Ukraine last weekend.
During the soliloquy, a group of students attending the conference burst in with banners that read “President of violence and hypocrisy!”and shouting “There are millions of people in the streets. The climate convention is not respected. What do you want to tell us about Europe?“.
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The protesters demanded in English the same improvements that the streets of France have demanded of their president in recent months: respect for the pensions and more determination to fight the climate change.
But the positions of the president of France are not only controversial in terms of his internal policy. After his visit to Xi Jinping Last week, Macron wanted to distance himself from the tension between China and the United States in the name of the “European sovereignty” and the interests of the European Union (EU), which are not fall into a policy of blocks.
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“Not because we are the allies of the United States, we have to be against China,” stressed the French Minister of Economy on Tuesday, Bruno Le Mairein an interview on the radio station Europe 1in which he defended the position of the president, Emmanuel Macron, upon his return from an official visit to China last week.
Le Maire insisted that France defends “the path of dialogue” and added: “Isn’t that preferable to confrontation?” “Does Europe need one more conflict? Does the world need one more conflict? No”.
For the French minister “Europe must have its own strategic conception” that does not necessarily coincide with that of the United States, in the same way that the United States did not take European interests into account when designing its Inflation Reduction Actthe law that he adopted last summer to massively subsidize industrialists who produce in the United States.
