A "new European organization" to strengthen cooperation with Ukraine.

French President Emmanuel Macron called on Monday 9 May for the creation of a "European political community" to welcome third countries such as Ukraine, in parallel with an EU accession procedure which would take "decades".

This new framework would allow "the democratic European nations adhering to our base of values, to find a new space for political cooperation, security, cooperation", declared Emmanuel Macron on the occasion of the closing of the Conference on the future from Europe.

The European Union displayed its values ​​of peace and unity in opposition to the warlike discourse of Vladimir Putin, by celebrating Europe Day in Strasbourg around the newly re-elected French president.

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"Revision of the Treaties"

Emmanuel Macron also declared himself "in favor" of a "revision of the treaties" of the European Union, proposing that the leaders of the 27 discuss it at their summit in June.

"We will have to reform our texts, it is obvious. One of the ways of this reform is the convening of a convention for the revision of the treaties. It is a proposal from the European Parliament and I approve it", declared the French President to the European Parliament, for his first speech on Europe since his re-election and the Russian offensive in Ukraine.

Emmanuel Macron in Berlin

At the end of the afternoon, the Head of State will go to Berlin, reserving, as usual, the first official visit since his re-election to the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz.

Support for Franco-German friendship, "with an even stronger symbolism of Europe Day", we emphasize at the Élysée.

"This May 9, History will remember that in Moscow, an army of aggression marched and that here in Strasbourg, capital of reconciliation in Europe, hundreds of citizens gathered to rebuild our union", predicted the State Secretary for European Affairs, during the closing ceremony of the Conference on the Future of Europe at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

With AFP

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