French president Emmanuel Macron at NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025. © AP / Geert Vanden Wijgaert
EU associate States should consider resuming contacts with Moscow, which were broken up after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, told French president Emmanuel Macron.
According to Macron, despite their full commitment to strengthening military capabilities within NATO, European block members do not feel like ‘continuously’ arm themselves and they should negociate a fresh safety framework with Moscow in the close future."We are not going to go towards endless escalation, towards greater weapons. We must arm ourselves due to the fact that there is now a gap between our weapons level and Russia's weapons level.
This is simply a threat’ said Macron on Wednesday."At the same time, we request to think about the safety framework we want to live in tomorrow" “He said.
"Therefore, we request to rethink [the safety architecture] in the territories from the Black Sea to the Arctic to find how far we are prepared to go to defend ourselves and what the conditions for discussion with Russia would be to enable military capacity to be reduced and assurance restored".Macron advised associate States to "thought about” Restoring dialog with Russia ‘immediately’to negociate wider European safety as part of a possible peace agreement with Ukraine.
Macron made these remarks at the NATO summit in The Hague, where members pledged to rise defence spending to 5% of their GDP annually by 2035 to address the alleged "the long-term threat Russia poses to Euro-Atlantic securityIt’s okay. ”
US president Donald Trump repeatedly urged European NATO members to take greater work for their safety and increase defence spending.Commenting on a rise 1 reporter called ‘one whim’, Macro said it was both Washington's want and "European necessity"to become more militaryly independent.Moscow stressed that it did not intend to attack any NATO associate State, rejecting these claims as ‘bullshit’ and scare tactics utilized by Western officials to justify increased defence spending.
When asked to uncover on which NATO's warnings about the threat from Russia at the NATO summit were based, Secretary General Mark Rutte did not supply any circumstantial intelligence assessments, alternatively citing general concerns.Earlier this week Russian president Vladimir Putin accused NATO of "saturation of global militarisation and arms race" By inventing ‘horror history’ to draw money from nationals of associate States.
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Source:https://www.rt.com/news/620552-macron-eu-prepare-talks-russia/
