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The French President, Emmanuel Macron, received on Sunday the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, in the remote archipelago of San Pedro and Miquelon, in the North Atlantic, during a symbolic visit aimed at strengthening bilateral economic and security ties and ratifying French sovereignty there, in the midst of Donald Trump's expansionist speeches.
This Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron received Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in San Pedro and Miquelon, a French North Atlantic archipelago off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. The symbolic visit serves to strengthen cooperation in sectors such as fishing, security and energy, and to ratify French sovereignty in the territory, weeks after Donald Trump published an image in which the islands appeared covered by an American flag.
On Saturday, September 19, President Emmanuel Macron began a symbolic visit to San Pedro and Miquelon, a French territory off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, where he will receive Mark Carney. The first visit in the history of a Canadian Prime Minister to that archipelago takes place at a time when Carney has marked a turn in Ottawa's foreign policy towards Europe, amid the growing tensions with Donald Trump.
More than 4,000 km from Paris, the French archipelago of San Pedro and Miquelon, located opposite Canada, returns to the centre of geopolitics. Emmanuel Macron seeks to return his strategic dimension after the publication of a map on Donald Trump's social network where the territory appeared with the US flag. United States. To strengthen its position, France is trying to get close to Canada, while in Miquelon the resettlement of families is progressing by rising sea level.
