Emanuel Macron: "NATO was brain dead when Turkey threatened Greece"
The French president recalled NATO's stance on Greek-Turkish, wanting to reiterate his view of the Alliance.
The Ukrainian crisis has been a shock to NATO, said Emanuel Macron, presenting his campaign program for his re-election as President of the French Republic.
The French president, when asked by a journalist - during a press conference - if he made a mistake in 2019 when he described NATO as "brain dead", clarified that this is how things were when he made that statement, referring to a lack of strategic clarity that era and typically referring to the case of Turkey threatening "another Member State", referring indirectly but clearly to Greece.
Developments in Ukraine were an shock to the Alliance, Macron said, stressing the need for a European security policy. However, he concluded by saying that he never considered that France should leave NATO.
