“The homeland needs you”. Emmanuel Macron addressed the French on Wednesday about the Ukrainian conflict, asking them for certain efforts, notably financial.
08:55 – France will “produce and buy in Europe”
The Minister of Foreign Affairs was the guest of BFMTV this morning. The Minister of Foreign Affairs assured that “the threat has taken a new form”, with “disinformation campaigns”, “acts of sabotage” on the part of Russia. “We can only rest only on ourselves. It is time to resume our destiny in hand, and in particular our security and our defense,” added Jean-Noël Barrot, adding: “We no longer support being dependent for our military supplies and our armament of depending on the United States, South Korea, or others”. According to him, “the main issue” of the European summit this Thursday is to “send a message”: “We want to produce and buy in Europe”.
03/05/25 – 23:41 – “Finally, European leaders seem to take the measure of the threat posed by Putin Russia”
End of direct – invited to react to Emmanuel Macron’s speech on Wednesday evening on the BFMTV set, MEP Raphaël Glucksmann did not hesitate to qualify Russia “strategic adversary of our democracies”. “Finally, European leaders seem to take the measure of the threat represented by Putin’s Russia,” he said.
03/05/25 – 23:15 – “The homeland needs you and your commitment”, reiterates Emmanuel Macron
In a short message published on X at the end of the evening, Emmanuel Macron synthesized his presidential speech. “France will only follow a CAP: that of the will for peace and freedom, faithful to its history and its principles. The homeland needs you and your commitment,” he writes.
05/03/25 – 22:47 – “Russian assets must be seized,” says Olivier Faure
Also on X also, the boss of the Socialists Olivier Faure judged that support for Ukraine is “imperative”, before worried as his Marine ecologist mower for the financing of this support. For him, it is not up to the French to sacrifice himself again. “Europe is not in debt, it can borrow. Russian assets must be seized,” he said, also defending the idea of ”making ultra rich contribute”.
Support for Ukraine is an imperative.
Aiming the strategic autonomy of the European Union must be the objective.
Giving yourself the means cannot go through new sacrifices for the French, the degradation of our public services and the abandonment of the transition …– Olivier Faure (@faureolivier) March 5, 2025
05/03/25 – 22:24 – No tax increase? Marine Tondelier emits doubts
The boss of environmentalists reacted for a long time to the speech of Emmanuel Macron this Wednesday evening. In a post X, she notably issued doubts that French taxes are not increased. “Let’s not be naive: without increasing the taxes of the richest, Emmanuel Macron will neither be able to finance this war effort nor make him accept the population.”
[Réaction à l’allocution d’Emmanuel Macron]
The situation in Europe has been of unprecedented severity since 1945.
It is the very existence of Ukraine and the EU which is today threatened by Vladimir Putin and his new ally in the White House.
Abandon Ukraine at …
– Marine Tondelier (@Marinetondelier) March 5, 2025
03/05/25 – 22:02 – “I remember questions that have remained unanswered,” said Jean -Philippe Tanguy
The deputy for the national rally reacted on Wednesday evening at the speech of Emmanuel Macron on the set of BFMTV. “I remember questions that have remained unanswered,” he said.
05/03/25-21:41-The rebellious Mathilde Panot denounces a “speech go-war from Macron”
“Nothing on the security guarantees of Ukraine but the Atlanticist alignment remains, the purchase of American weapons too. A chimerical French nuclear umbrella. He speaks of reindustrialisation but lets a vancorex and the foundries of Brittany die. And offers blood and tears to the French people for a war economy”, deplored Mathilde Panot on X, denouncing a “speech going to the war” by Emmanuel Macron. “We want a peace economy and respect for international law,” she pleaded.
03/05/25 – 21:27 – Éric Ciotti calls for a referendum
“The French must be consulted in the face of this permanent coup of the European Commission with the complicity of President Macron,” said on X Éric Ciotti, calling for a referendum on “these historical and serious guidelines”.
I call a referendum on these historical and serious orientations taken without the peoples!
The French must be consulted in the face of this permanent coup of the European Commission with the complicity of President Macron. https://t.co/0cwrvyvqzb
– Eric Ciotti (@eciotti) March 5, 2025
03/05/25 – 21:19 – “You have to get out of the declarative”, judge Jordan Bardella
“Emmanuel Macron realizes, lastly, that the world of today is that of power,” reacted the president of the national gathering on Wednesday evening on X. “There will be no future for France and Europe without independence, without growth, without ambition: faced with the immense challenges which are announced and worry our compatriots, we must get out of the declarative”, he continued, evoking pell-mell of the suspension of the Green Deal, of a national and European preference or even a reform of the European energy market.
Emmanuel Macron realizes, last, that the world of today is that of power.
There will be no future for France and Europe without independence, without growth, without ambition: in the face of the immense challenges which promise and worry our compatriots, it …
– Jordan Bardella (@j_bardella) March 5, 2025
03/05/25 – 21:03 – “Macron says true”: Jean -Luc Mélenchon reacts to the speech of the Head of State
“Yes, Macron says true. It is a change of time. But those who have put on the dead end and idealized the USA no longer must be followed,” tempered on X Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the wake of the presidential speech. And to plead: “Absolute priority: the security of our own borders on the five continents, ecological, military security, and the social needs of the population. At low war!”
05/03/25 – 20:41 – Emmanuel Macron denounces American customs taxes “incomprehensible”
While Donald Trump decided in the night of Monday to Tuesday to increase the customs taxes imported from Canada and Mexico to 25% and now threatens European products, Emmanuel Macron has denounced “incomprehensible” taxes. “I hope to convince and dissuade the President of the United States” not to impose them on Europeans, he said.
03/05/25 – 20:36 – “The homeland needs you”: Emmanuel Macron’s call to the French
During his speech, Emmanuel Macron assured that Europe was not to be outdone and had everything “to compete with the United States or Russia”. And to launch to the French: “The homeland needs you and your commitment. Political decisions, military equipment, budgets are one thing, but they will never replace the strength of soul.”
03/05/25 – 20:34 – Nuclear deterrence: Emmanuel Macron puts on the points on “i”
“I decided to open the strategic debate of the [dissuasion nucléaire] With our European allies, “said Emmanuel Macron during his speech, before insisting:” Whatever happens, the decision will always be made and will remain in the hands of the President of the Republic, the chief of the armies. “
03/05/25 – 20:23 – “The threat returns to the east”: Emmanuel Macron points the enemy of the finger
During his speech, Emmanuel Macron insisted on the threat represented for Europe Russia. “The threat comes back to the east,” he said. And to add again: “The Russian threat is there […] In the air, at sea and behind our screens. “