French President Emmanuel Macron said the European Union must stop being naive in the face of growing competition from the US and China, and repeated calls for a “buy European” strategy in key sectors such as defense.
“Europe is the last place where we’re open to the rest of the world without a European preference and without rules,” Macron said in a speech in Dresden, on the second day of a state visit to Germany. “Go to China, go to the US! We want to develop trade but there are national preferences.”
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