Emmanuel Macron: “European competitiveness still lags behind that of the US.”

“A lack of growth, the lack of GDP per capita growth and the three pillars of our strategy in order to deliver more sovereignty, more efficiency and more growth would be based on protection, simplification and investment. Because the diagnosis is well known, European competitiveness still lags behind that of the US. and in the current global order, facing precisely the Chinese approach, we have to react. So first, protection. Protection doesn't mean protectionism. But today's Europeans are too naive.” (11:04–11:08)

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