Emmanuel Macron alerts to the return of the “Specter of War” in Europe, through the commemorations of 8-May | EUROtoday

Faced with the return of “Specter of war” on the European continent, “We will never finish defending peace”Emmanuel Macron mentioned when celebrating 80^e Anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany, Thursday, May 8.

The French president warned: “We will never finish fighting for victory. »» “And we will never finish defending peace. We will never finish. And if some people thought, in recent years in Europe and in the world have reminded us of it ”he continued, throughout a speech delivered on the foot of the Arc de Triomphe. While the battle waged by Russia in Ukraine has stretched for over three years, Emmanuel Macron famous the phantasm that was the concept of “Perpetual peace” On the continent, born after the second world battle.

Because “In recent years”Europeans have seen “Reappear the spectrum of war, reappear imperialisms and totalitarian behaviors” And “Bafouer the law of nations again”deplored the top of state. In this sense “We will never have finished asserting the place of our country, of the ideals it has, to defend our independence, our freedom and a stronger Europe”he launched.

Emmanuel Macron additionally recalled that France, after 5 years of Nazi occupation, needed to win among the many allies on the winner desk 80 years in the past, when signing the capitulation of III^e Reich, in Reims. “We knew that he had a role to play, this country, our old country, in the dialogue of the powers, the balance of the world and the stability of the future. And where his flag floated, there too floated a certain idea of ​​man ”put forward the president.

During the ceremony, to which was invited the president of the Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, Emmanuel Macron handed over the insignia of the Knight of the Legion of Honor to Jean Daikhowski, a figure of the resistance which notably participated in the liberation of Paris, after having escaped the Vel’d’Hiv roundup in 1942.