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| The security of the European Union must no longer depend on the US, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. | The security of the European Union must no longer depend on the US, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. |
| Europe can “no longer” entrust its security to the US alone, the French president said, speaking at the annual French ambassadors' conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris. | Europe can “no longer” entrust its security to the US alone, the French president said, speaking at the annual French ambassadors' conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris. |
| “It is up to us today to take responsibility and guarantee [the EU’s] security and, therefore, EU sovereignty,” he added. | “It is up to us today to take responsibility and guarantee [the EU’s] security and, therefore, EU sovereignty,” he added. |
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| Speaking about Syria, the president recalled the bombardments which France and its allies – the US and the UK – unleashed on the war-stricken country in April this year. "We will continue to do this [airstrikes] in cases” where it is proven that the government of Bashar Assad used chemical weapons on Syrian people, the centrist politician added. The April airstrikes were carried out in response to an alleged gas attack in Douma on April 7, which the West blamed on Assad’s government. | |
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