German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejects French President Emmanuel Macron’s view that NATO is experiencing “brain death,” saying that such comments are not necessary.
Macron “used drastic words, that is not my view of cooperation in NATO,” says Merkel after talks with visiting chief of the transatlantic defense alliance Jens Stoltenberg.
Illustrative: French President Emmanuel Macron, left, speaking with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, June 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
“I don’t think that such sweeping judgments are necessary, even if we have problems and need to pull together,” she adds.
Stoltenberg meanwhile stresses that “NATO is strong,” adding that the United States and Europe “work together more than we have done for decades.”
Macron’s explosive comments come ahead of a NATO summit in Britain next month.
“You have no coordination whatsoever of strategic decision-making between the United States and its NATO allies. None,” charged the French president.
— AFP
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