Emmanuel Macron has likened the political divisions in Europe to a civil war and warned against growing illiberalism on the continent. “There seems to be a certain European civil war: national selfishness and negativity seems to take precedence over what brings us together. The deadly tendency which might lead our continent to the abyss, nationalism, giving up of freedom: I reject the idea that European democracy is condemned to impotence. Weber told Macron that Europe welcomed his election, but people should not be divided into good and bad Europeans. The French president also claimed the true European political identity differed from that of “our American ally”, which was “rejecting multilateralism, free trade and climate change”.

Source: The Guardian April 17, 2018 10:53 UTC