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Macron warns that Europe 'can die'

PARIS: France's President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday urged Europe to rise up to the challenges of a changed world, warning that the continent today 'is mortal and it can die.'

'It can die, and this depends only on our choices,' Macron said in a keynote speech, warning that Europe was 'not armed against the risks we face' in a world where the 'rules of the game have changed.'

WEST WARNED France’s President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech on Europe in front of the slogan ‘A powerful Europe’ in an amphitheater of Sorbonne University in the capital Paris on Thursday, April 25, 2024. AFP PHOTO