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FRANCE PRESIDENT MACRON STATE VISIT TO UK CNBC-TV18: France's President Macron Hails UK At State Dinner \| King Charles III-Macron Meeting In UK \| N18G PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfolZk-edww
France's President Macron Hails UK At State Dinner \| King Charles III-Macron Meeting In UK \| N18G CNBC-TV18 Jul 9, 2025 4.07M subscribers ... 6,601 views ... 172 likes UNITED KINGDOM 'France and the United Kingdom must now work together to ensure that Europe can benefit fully from the remarkable skills,' said French President Emmanuel Macron during the state dinner hosted by Lord Mayor of London. #Watch #emmanuelmacron #kingcharles #unitedkingdom #franceukties #franceukrelations #cnbctv18 #cnbctv18digital How this content was made Auto-dubbed Audio tracks for some languages were automatically generated. Learn more Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess Transcript 0:00 Wateroo as a French writer Alons said he's less famous than Victoria Go. The odd thing about you British is that you always name your streets and railway stations after defeats. But I also noticed the statue of Sir Winston Churchill evoking our shared victory, our two nations ability to transform the antagonism of yesterday into a longstanding cooperation. At a time of major economic, climate, and technological upheaval, the destinies of France and the United Kingdom are now closer than ever. And indeed, the need for our economic partnerships is not just to do with geography. It's a choice born out of 1:02 mutual trust earned over many years which has overcome all adversity. Almost 300,000 French people have made this choice by setting in the United Kingdom and almost 150,000 British people have done so in the opposite direction. We are each other's fourth largest trading partners and in terms of services we are your second largest partner which is higher than before Brexit and because of our cross investment has created a permanent link between us. French companies are the second largest foreign employers in the United Kingdom. Whether they be our major manufacturers, our startups, our infrastructure operators, our luxury brands, our agri food or financial giants 2:00 and please allow me to thank the entire team France in the United Kingdom which has been nurturing this relationship on a daily basis. the Embassy, the Fred Chamber of Great Britain, Business France, and the Foreign Trade Advisors. Thanks to all of you. [Applause] Now, I have a very smart and sophisticated speech being written, but I want to to try to address your remarks more directly and uh and trying to quote Amuel Nelson. And as you can see, we don't hold grudges. And I am the opinion that the boldest measures are the safest. And this is true. Look at the world. Look at our situation. I'm not totally convinced that both the European Union and let's say France and 3:01 the UK are in the best possible position today. We're looking good or we fight to do so. We are very proud of our history and we have uh our principles and values and we are right. But after the financial crisis, after COVID times, after this war on the European soil and the aggression of Russia, inflation and now after all the turbulences on global economy from one side because of the over capacities and over subsidies from China on the other side because of this trade war launched by the United States, What is the best solution for all of us? I'm very respectful for the voice of people and the choice your country made 4:02 few years ago, nine years ago. And I'm lucid about the solenity of the state visit being the first one of a European head of state post Brexit. But I I have to say the European Union was stronger with you and you were stronger with the European Union and look at this world. The first question is what do we want to do? Do we want just to be informed about our future and to write our future? I do prefer the second option. But look at the situation where we are 5:02 looking and following the news to understand if we will be granted at 10 20 30% what the decision will be taken in another capital. This is not what the Europe is. This is not the story, the DNA of the United Kingdom. Neither it is DNA of France. We want to write our future. What we have to do is just to take the risk to dare and not to be the follower of a story being written by another continent. This point is a critical point. And during decades we thought that this great brother probably more for you than for us. We have mixed experience with 6:00 the US but there were and it's a strange experience if you speak about France and UK because in fact we did our best to allow them to be independent and Lafayette is a is a big star. We worked very well together during the two world wars and uh and we were more reluctant to be totally aligned during the past decades. It was a sort of goalist approach. But let's be clear both of us today we are in the situation to choice our future and to be instructed about our future. And the only way to choose our future is to do it together. to take the right decisions but to progressively derisk our models from both China and the US even if I don't compare them they are very different but not to try to play our own games but 7:02 to be lucid about the situation we will never change geography we are neighbors and we will don't we will never change our history we were the best rivals we are the best friends we know each But we have to work together and not just working. We have to take our responsibilities together. We have clearly to decide to choose our future to write our future together. This is my conviction. And if we speak about life science, AI, quantum, defense and security, industry, luxury, agriculture, our interests are much more aligned than we thought. It was our past games to try to maximize our options by playing with the other sides because sometimes we thought it I mean it was the best way to to win against 8:00 United Kingdom or for you to win against France. This time is over. Now we have to work decide and design the future together and we have to find together this taste for risk future. We were discussing a little bit earlier my lord may about the risk adversity in our countries and this is true. Our Europe was supposed to be an old continent. Be careful not to become an old continent. If we don't take any risk, if we just try to buy the book, meaning this is this elegance, this is very clearly this common decency. I quoted yesterday toville with this 9:03 habits of the art but he has this elegance this capacity just to remind ourselves that we are in a situation to have with us centuries and centuries of traditions and civilizations and I think it's a chance and it's very important And taking risks doesn't mean that we should forget all these things. But being respectful, believing in civilization, arts, culture, respecting your partner as sometimes your adversaries. Being predictable is a great advantage in this world. And both of us, we are made like that. 10:19 Hey, thank you for watching this on CNBC TV18. Hope you liked it. For more such interesting news and updates, follow CNBC TV18 on all the social media platforms. auto-generated

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