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03 December 2019It is the day of the NATO summit in London. After the two-way meeting with the secretary general of the Atlantic Alliance Stoltenberg, Donald Trump returns to the clash with Paris. Protesters expected in the afternoon. The Atlantic alliance is 70 years old and the allied leaders are around the same table in a climate of tension.The American president has declared that the criticisms of the French president Emmanuel Macron on the Alliance are "very ugly and disrespectful".
For Trump "nobody needs NATO more than France". Macron spoke of the Alliance in "brain death". "Very dangerous" statements, according to Trump, which yesterday threatened heavy duties on French and even Italian products, with retaliation for the Digital Tax.
Alongside NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump added that Marcon's words "are offensive" and that "France has a very high rate of unemployment" and "is not doing well economically".
"These are very tough statements to make when you have these difficulties in France," added Trump, insinuating that Macron wants to divert attention from internal issues by "going around making statements like these about NATO".
Trump also spoke of the "unfair" participation in the costs of spending between Nato countries, focusing in particular on Germany, which dedicates a percentage to Defense.
According to reports, the American president will have a bilateral meeting with Giuseppe Conte on the sidelines of the work.
Trump praises Erdogan
"I like Turkey and I get along very well with its president". Thus the American president Donald Trump spoke about his relations with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in London, where he is to participate in the NATO summit. Regarding the use of Turkish airspace by the United States in the operation that led to the killing of Islamic State (Isis) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the American president said that Turkey "could not be more favorable ''.
Trump then defended Ankara's decision to purchase the S-400 missile defense system from Moscow, stating that the administration of its predecessor Barack Obama had refused to sell Patriot to Turkey. "They said it several times and so Turkey stopped insisting and bought Russian missiles," the US president said. Trump then called "a great deal" the decision to withdraw US military from Syria, adding that now the US has "full control of oil" that ISIS used to finance its terrorist operations.
Johnson: NATO is in "fantastic success"
NATO "is in good health" and is a symbol of "fantastic success", said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the sidelines of the 70th Alliance Summit. "My message to all the leaders, to President Trump, to President Macron, to Chancellor Merkel and to all our friends," is "look, we are a great alliance that has had a fantastic success for 70 years and has brought peace and prosperity ". What matters, he added, is "facing threats" together.
Erdogan: plan veto NATO if it does not condemn Kurdish militias
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will be observed as a special target for Europeans on the offensive against the Kurds in northern Syria. Turkey will block NATO's plans to defend Poland and the Baltic countries if the Allies do not recognize Ypg Kurdish-Syrian militias as terrorists, said Erdogan before leaving for the London summit.
Stoltenberg minimizes differences over Turkey
NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg tries to minimize the differences between Turkey and other member countries triggered by the Ankara anti-Kurdish military operation in northern Syria. And he is convinced that the commitments on "collective defense" in Poland and the Baltic countries will be maintained, beyond the ultimatum launched Erdogan.