Macron: Friend or Foe? Liz Truss declines to comment

Emmanuel Macron ‘Friend or foe’? Liz Truss, favorite in the UK premiership race, declined to comment on Thursday, saying she would judge the French president. for his actions. Nevertheless, Liz Truss, speaking in the evening at a Conservative Party election meeting in Norwich (southeast), specified that she prefers French nuclear technology over Chinese. Still her country’s chief diplomat, in a government that manages current affairs, she aspires to success in 10 Downing Street for Boris Johnson, who resigned in July.

Many litigation files

For this, a majority of the votes of about 200 thousand conservative activists must be gathered. The elections are underway and the results will be announced on the fifth of September. She is opposing former Economy Minister Rishi Sunak, who was also present Thursday night in Norwich, even if the two candidates did not discuss directly. Rishi Sunak, who according to the latest polls is 30 points behind his rival, did not hesitate when asked by the journalist hosting the evening. Macron, friend or foe?choose the first option.

In contrast, when Liz Truss was asked the same question, she answered “The jury is still out.”Making the room laugh. “If I become prime minister, I will judge him by his actions, not his words.”She added without further expanding on the reasons for the apparent mistrust. There are many litigation files between France and the United Kingdom, in particular the administration of the post-Brexit files, whether it is fisheries or Northern Ireland.

The two NATO allies also had different approaches to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with Boris Johnson taking a very hard line against Vladimir Putin while the French president advocated the need to maintain an open dialogue with the Kremlin. The relationship between Paris and London was called again a few minutes later in the conversation about energy independence in the UK, where prices are rising dramatically under the influence of the explosion in gas prices. Liz Truss argued that the country should build new nuclear power plants, and lamented the fact that it had lost its experience in this field. to do this, “If the choice is to rely on France or China, I will choose France,” fired, applauded again.