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French President Emmanuel Macron received Sunday, September 20 in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney who declared that he wanted to "close the ties" between the two countries and with the European Union. The two leaders intended to display their respective sovereignty in the face of Donald Trump's blows.
From his arrival on Saturday night, Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed French sovereignty over the archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. He then welcomed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday for an unprecedented visit to this small French territory of the North Atlantic, intended to reaffirm the unity of Canada, France and Europeans in the face of Donald Trump's recurring blows. Follow their live speech.
French President Emmanuel Macron said France and Canada were "two great independent nations who want to stay that way" in a joint news conference with Canadian leader Mark Carney Sunday. Watch the press conference by the two leaders on the French overseas territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon just off Canada's Atlantic coast.
Emmanuel Macron will meet with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon on Sunday 20 September, a few weeks after US President Donald Trump posted an image of the archipelago covered by the American flag.
From his arrival on Saturday night, Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed French sovereignty over the archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, in the North Atlantic. He must meet with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. His first visit to the Overseas Territory came a few weeks after US President Donald Trump published a photo on social media showing this area covered by the American flag.
A small, isolated but strategic French archipelago at the edge of the North Atlantic: Emmanuel Macron travels from this Saturday, September 19 to Monday, September 21, to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, where he will display, alongside Prime Minister Mark Carney, the unity of Canada, France and Europeans and the "sovereignty of nations" facing the blows of Donald Trump.
This Sunday, Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney are to display the "sovereignty of nations" in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon against Donald Trump - who recently published a map where the entire North America was displayed as a United States... For the French president, "to spend three days there is a way to recall French sovereignty," explains our guest Guillaume Poiret, geographer and North American specialist.
