Macron slams US for ‘breaking free’ from global rules after Maduro raid, Greenland threat
The French President condemned Washington’s isolationism after the capture of Venezuela’s leader and designs to take over the Danish territory
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that the United States was “breaking free from international rules”, and “gradually turning away” from some of its allies.
Macron delivered his annual speech to French ambassadors at the Elysee Palace as European powers are scrambling to come up with a coordinated response to US assertive foreign policy in the western hemisphere following Washington’s capture of Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro and US President Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland.
“The United States is an established power, but one that is gradually turning away from some of its allies and breaking free from international rules that it was still promoting recently,” Macron told ambassadors at the Elysee Palace.
“Multilateral institutions are functioning less and less effectively,” Macron added.
“We are living in a world of great powers with a real temptation to divide up the world.”
Macron spoke after US special forces snatched Maduro and his wife from Venezuela on Saturday in a lightning raid and whisked them to New York, sparking condemnation that the United States was undermining international law.