Paris talks a lot about “European sovereigy”, but does not pay – Mehr News Agency | RCO News Agency
According to Mehr news agency, quoted by Al-Arabiya network, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadfull criticized French leaders and said that Paris talks a lot about “European sovereigy”, but does not spend enough to defend it.
Speaking to the German radio Deutschlandfunk, he addressed the leaders of Paris and said: whoever speaks about it, should act accordingly in his own coury. The efforts of the French Republic have not been enough so far.
Wadful added: “Whoever talks about the independence of (Europe) from America today, should do his homework at home first.”
These words of the German foreign minister indicate the growing tensions between the two major European powers.
In this regard, the tensions between Germany and France have also increased within the framework of the European new generation fighter project; Where German companies and unions accuse French aerospace group Dassault of seeking to impose its terms on the joi veure.
In another case that can be meioned as a dispute between England and France, Paris tried to stop the trade agreeme of the European Union with the “Mercosur” couries in South America, of which Berlin was one of the main supporters.
France has also opposed requests from Germany and Italy to ease planned EU-wide restrictions on new diesel and gasoline cars by 2035.
This frank criticism of France is also made a day after the French Preside Emmanuel Macron tried to eer the conversation between German Chancellor Friedrich Mertes and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer during the tripartite meeting between the leaders of the three European couries France, Germany and England, but the heads of these two couries ignored the French Preside and did not allow him to eer their conversation, which became the subject of the news media. became
