Macron praises Europe’s predictability in face of countries that ‘hurt you without even informing you’ – as it happened

Meanwhile, French president Emmanuel Macron praised Europe’s “predictability” during a visit to Japan, contrasting it with countries that “could hurt you without even informing you” in an apparent swipe at Donald Trump, AFP reported. Picking up his famous “fo shur” speech in his Davos speech earlier this year (but without the sunglasses this time round), Macron pointedly praised Europe, despite some of its perceived shortcomings. “I’m well aware that sometimes Europe can be seen as a continent that is slower than others,” Macron told an audience of Japanese business leaders and investors in Tokyo. “But predictability has value, and we have demonstrated that over all these past years and, dare I say, even these past weeks: we are where you know we will go,” he added. double quotation markThat’s not bad, in times like these, believe me. Macron pointedly criticised countries that said they were “going much faster” than their allies, but “you don’t know whether the day after tomorrow they will still be in that position, and whether tomorrow they won’t make a decision that could hurt you without even informing you”. The remark was interpreted by AFP