French President Emmanuel Macron hit on the issues of climate change,
nationalism, trade and the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in his speech to a
joint session of US Congress, calling on the United States to engage
more with the world.
After what has been seen as a friendly state visit to Washington, Macron's speech laid out a view of global leadership starkly different from US President Donald Trump's "America First."
What Macron said
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After what has been seen as a friendly state visit to Washington, Macron's speech laid out a view of global leadership starkly different from US President Donald Trump's "America First."
What Macron said
- The United States and France have a long history together
- He criticized Trump's isolationist principles
- Climate change is real. We have no Planet B
- Macron is sure the US will someday come back to to the Paris Agreement
- We must fight against fake news
- Iran will never have nuclear weapons nuclear weapons
- At a press conference later, Macron said he believed Trump would pull the US out of the Iran nuclear deal
Read more: French President Emmanuel Macron rocks US Congress with speech | News | DW | 25.04.2018