PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday he would work to build a Europe that was less dependent on China and the United States, as France gradually emerges from an eight-week lockdown.
The coronavirus crisis has exposed how reliant France and the rest of Europe is on supply chains with China and elsewhere.
“This ordeal has exposed flaws and fragilities: our dependence to other continents to get our hands on some goods,” the president said in a televised address to the nation. “I want us to draw all the lessons from what we have learned.”
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta, Michel Rose; Writing by Matthias Blamont; Editing by Edmund Blair)
