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In the very top of the Earth, Emmanuel Macron's remarks about Poland before his arrival in New York are controversial and pollute the diplomatic operation of the President of the Republic at the UN General Assembly. Poland has lost no time in responding to the French president.
On the way to New York, aboard the presidential plane, Emmanuel Macron let himself go to some confidences in non-diplomatic terms that recall the time of verbal slippage.
Asked by some journalists present at his side on the youth climate marches, he advised them to " go demonstrate in Poland " to help him " move " those he can not "change And even added: "The truth is that there is one that blocks everything, it's Poland."
Some comments reported in Le Parisien and which provoked immediate reactions in the French political class. Jean-Luc Mélenchon quipped in a tweet. The spokesman of the Communist Party, Ian Brossat, denounced him " a thread in the quinquennium: contempt and arrogance ."
Poland responds
Meanwhile, the little phrase is struggling to pass in Warsaw, says our correspondent on the spot , Thomas Giraudeau . In response to the criticism of Emmanuel Macron, the Polish Minister of European Affairs in turn taunts the French president: " we learn from French mistakes ". Konrad Szymanski reminds the head of state that the social crisis of "yellow vests" began after an increase in an environmental tax on fuels. " Poland wants to carry out its climate transition in a different , gentler way ," says the minister.
The latter recalls that it is his country, Poland, which hosted the last major climate conference, COP24, last year.
If Katowice is considered a failure for NGOs, Konrad Szymanski sees in the very organization of the COP the proof that the country is seriously interested in the climate.
His colleague at the Ministry, Foreign Secretary Szymon Szynkowski, also refers Emmanuel Macron to his domestic political problems. " We will not advise the demonstrators to go to France because there are already enough ", adding that he begins to be tired of the French president's exits against Poland.
The king of contempt has spoken # Macron offers to young people who walk for the climate to protest in Poland.
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