If the twenty-seven agreed to “rearm Europe” in the face of the Russian threat and American disengagement, they only meet the requirements of Donald Trump. The Ukrainian president, for his part, confirmed a meeting with the United States “next week”.
10:50 – François Bayrou points the finger at Donald Trump’s behavior
The Prime Minister denounces the behavior of the American president. He explains that Donald Trump has started an “alliances” reversal, at the CNews microphone. “We had the alliance of freedoms, and now Trump overturns it, and not halfway,” he said. “I give him wrong to reverse the laws that made us live in peace. I give him wrong to make his allies adversaries and enemies, and I give him wrong to make the world more insecure than it was, more, dangerous than it was,” adds François Bayrou.
10:44 – A night of bombing and a first for the French Mirage 2000
The Ukrainian army said the country was targeted by at least 58 missiles and 194 drones on the night of Thursday to Friday. She claims to have shot at least 34 missiles and 100 drones. This night was also the first time that Ukraine has made use of French mirage 2000 fighter planes to repel the Russian strikes.
10:33 – François Bayrou compares Russia to Germany from 1930-1940
“Russia does in Ukraine what other countries have done in the years 1930-1049 on their neighbors,” said the Prime Minister in an interview with CNews. François Bayrou refers here to the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939. “The world in which we have lived since the war, of the force of the law, has passed into another world where the law of the strongest reigns. This configuration led us to the worst in the 1930s,” added the Prime Minister.
10:22 – A support fund for reconstruction after the war?
The French Minister of the Economy and his Ukrainian counterpart met today in Bercy. They mentioned together the creation of a support fund of 200 million euros for the reconstruction and restoration of infrastructure after the war. Eric Lombard has reareable France’s support to Ukraine in a message published on X.
09:39 – Trump doubts the help of Europe, Macron answers him
Faithful to his speech calling into question the investment and capacity of European defense, Donald Trump explicitly doubted the aid that France could bring and other European countries in the event of a problem in the United States this Thursday, March 6: “My biggest problem with NATO (…), it is that if the United States had a problem and that we called France or other countries that I would not call us,” As they are supposed to do it?
The comment has not escaped Emmanuel Macron who, from the European summit, responded to his American counterpart: “We are loyal and faithful allies,” he said as if to point the weakening of American loyalty to NATO. The President of the Republic has cited several examples of cooperation between the two countries, including the landing in Normandy with German troops which were not the most numerous alongside Canadians and the English, but also the contribution of the Marquis de Lafayette to the independence of the United States. Another example is European mobilization after the September 11, 2021 attacks in New York. The French president stressed that France experienced “respect and friendship” for the United States and their leaders and was itself “in the right to claim the same thing” of the Americans.
08:58 – By rearming Europe, the EU meets Trump’s expectations
The twenty-seven voted unanimously for the strengthening of European defense at the extraordinary summit on Thursday. But by “rearming Europe”, European countries give in to a requirements by Donald Trump. The American president, who has identified militarily aid to Ukraine and evokes a withdrawal from NATO, justifies reverses because of the European expenses in matters of defense which he deems insufficient. Europe that seeks to compensate for American support less and less certain of the Americans, ultimately makes the changes expected by the latter.
03/06/25 – 23:54 – Napoleon: “The only imperial power I see today in Europe is Russia,” said Macron
End of the direct – Questioned by a journalist on the spike of Vladimir Putin, who had said earlier in the day, about Emmanuel Macron, regret that “there are still people who want to return to Napoleon’s times, forgetting how it ended”, the French president reacted. “Putin makes a historical misinterpretation, the only imperial power I see today in Europe is Russia. And it is a revisionist imperialist.”
03/06/25 – 23:46 – Russia, “an existential threat”: Emmanuel Macron persists and signs
After announcing the increase in European aid to Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron reiterated his accusations against Russia. “The analysis shared by all the Member States is that Russia, as I reminded yesterday to the French and the French, constitutes over time an existential threat to all Europeans, and therefore also for France,” he said. However, Emmanuel Macron said he was “ready to speak to President Putin when we have considered with both President Zelensky and our European partners that it is the right time”.
03/06/25 – 23:22 – From Brussels, Emmanuel Macron pleads for a truce
“We want peace for Ukraine,” said Emmanuel Macron at a press conference Thursday, at the end of the evening. “A solid, sustainable peace which guarantees the security of Ukraine. Not a capitulation,” he defended, before explaining that a truce was initially essential: “The idea [est] that we were first going to a truce. […] A truce in the air, at sea and on civil infrastructure, which can then allow to discuss what constitutes the security guarantees in the broad sense. “