The French president warned of the "risk of weakening" Europe and the West in an international context in which competition between powers is intensifying.
This situation has "rather strengthened" and is "becoming more and more complicated", and it also "carries the risk of weakening the West and especially our Europe", said the head of state at the annual meeting of French ambassadors held in Paris on Monday.
"We need to see clearly, without becoming overly pessimistic," Emmanuel Macron opined. In his speech, he highlighted phenomena such as "the dilution of our population" or "our economy in world trade as a result of the emergence of new global actors".
The French president also indicated that his government will submit the new immigration bill to parliament in the fall.
"There is a gradual questioning of the international order in which the West had and still has a dominant place," he added.
"This questioning is the result of the return of war, especially in Europe due to the Russian offensive in Ukraine, as well as the strengthening of the offensive policy from Asia to Africa, which is fed by invented or fantasized anti-colonialism and a politically exploited anti-West," said the French president.
He reaffirmed his position that "the world must be avoided" over the war in Ukraine, at a time when some states in the South are refusing to condemn Russia.
