They are increasingly distancing themselves from certain allies and freeing themselves from international rules, France’s president complained in his annual address to its ambassadors, noting that a “neo-colonial aggression” increasingly dominates diplomatic relations.
“International institutions are working worse and worse. We are moving into a world dominated by great powers possessed by a clear thirst to divide the world among themselves,” warned the French president.
“No” Macron to neo-colonialism, imperialism, servitude and defeatism
Emmanuel Macron has declared that he rejects the new colonialism and the new imperialism of the great powers, as well as the widespread defeatism towards developments in the world, the president of France.
“We reject new colonialism and new imperialism, but we also reject subservience and defeatism,” he said, calling on the Group of 7 (G7) and major emerging powers to reform global governance and the UN.
Strengthening the regulatory framework in technology
Emmanuel Macron has urged the defense and strengthening of European rules that impose a regulatory framework on tech giants, rules that are in the crosshairs of Donald Trump’s United States.
We must defend and strengthen European DSA and DMCA laws, he said. “The European democratic shield is preparing the European Commission and we in France will continue to take initiatives within this agenda.”
The French president requested the implementation already this year of a European preference agenda in the field of trade, stressing the importance of simplifying the single market, the single capital market, “because we really need this Europe of 450 million to exist and become more real”.
