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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

French president condemns US for ‘turning away from allies’

Emmanuel Macron stands by microphones, looking stern: he holds his hands either side of the podium, which has a French flag on the front, and stands in front of a white wall with French and EU flags. He wears a dark jacket, waistcoat and tie.
France ‘rejects the new colonialism and new imperialism’, said Emmanuel Macron at the ambassadors’ conference at the Élysée Palace, Paris. Photograph: Blondet Eliot/ABACA/Shutterstock

The presidents of France and Germany have sharply condemned US foreign policy under Donald Trump, saying respectively that Washington was “breaking free from international rules” and the world risked turning into a “robber’s den”.

In unusually strong and apparently uncoordinated remarks, Emmanuel Macron and Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned the postwar rules-based international order could soon disintegrate.

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