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France's Macron urges defence of democracy in EU

April 18, 2018 06:08·
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Macron deplored "a form of European civil war" in which "sometimes our national egotism seems more important than what unites us".

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses his supporters in Budapest. "There is a fascination with the illiberal and it's growing all the time", Macron told MEPs in the eastern French city. "I want to belong to a generation that has decided forcefully to defend its democracy".

"In these hard times, European democracy is our best chance", he added, before warning against the "deadly tendency" of national selfishness and egotism that could lead the continent "to the abyss".

"I don't want to belong to a generation of sleepwalkers, I don't want to belong to a generation that's forgotten its own past", the 40-year-old president said in a speech outlining his vision for the future of the EU.

"In this world and in this hard moment, European democracy is, I profoundly believe, our best chance, " Macron told European deputies. Donald Trump praised the US's allies in his tweet: "Thank you to France and the United Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine Military". "Perhaps you shouldn't have come".

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And, in a reference to Trump's raging on Twitter at Russian Federation over the possibility of strikes, Macron added: "The second thing is that we have also convinced him that he must limit his strikes to chemical weapons, at a time when there was a media furore via tweet, as I'm sure you noticed". What are we going to say, our rights and principles just for us? "No, no!" he said.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, speaking after Macron, cautioned against too great a focus on the Franco-German partnership or "motor" that lies at the heart of the EU project. "Every European Commissioner has to convince people by running for the European parliamentary elections". If Europe ignores the people, the people will ignore Europe.

Loekke Rasmussen wrote on Twitter on Tuesday that "we need Europe to work for the citizens - not the other way around". "In the face of authoritarianism that is everywhere around us, the answer is not the authoritarian democracy, but the authority of democracy", he argued, getting a loud round of applause.

The French president also claimed the true European political identity differed from that of "our American ally", which was "rejecting multilateralism, free trade and climate change".

Far-right lawmaker Florian Philippot, a former National Front member, accused Macron of humiliating France's historic statehood by playing to an audience of unrepresentative European elites.

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