France Warns That Europe Is Under Threat From US Coercion
Jean-Noel Barrot delivers a speech during an Ambassadors Conference, Jan. 9.
Photographer: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images
France accused the US of wielding trade coercion and sanctions to weaken European unity and sovereignty, as Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot warned that Europe faces mounting external threats.
Adversaries are testing the European Union through “territorial incursions on our eastern flank, trade blackmail, and claims on Greenland, which is not for sale,” Barrot said in a speech to French ambassadors in Paris, appearing to give similar weight to the US’s actions as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.