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AA (20 January 2025)

Necva Tastan Sevinc
 

'If we do nothing, we will be dominated, crushed, marginalized,' says Francois Bayrou

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou warned Monday that France and the EU could be "crushed" if they fail to react to the policies announced by US President-elect Donald Trump, who will be sworn in later today.

"The United States has decided on an incredibly dominating policy through the dollar, through industrial policy, through the capture of all research and the capture of investments," Bayrou said during a New Year's address to municipal staff in Pau, where he still remains mayor after becoming prime minister. "If we do nothing, we will be dominated, crushed, marginalized. This decision which is up to us, French and Europeans, because it is impossible without Europe, is the recovery," he added.

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