Europe "should not hesitate to deploy" tools at its disposal to protect its interests, French President Emmanuel Macron said in his address at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday, amid diplomatic fallout from private messages made public and escalating trade threats from Donald Trump in the run-up to the US president's own highly anticipated speech.
The French president, wearing aviator glasses in front of an audience eager to hear his take, denounced the US competition stating it aims to "subordinate Europe".
