President Emmanuel Macron’s call for French businesses to stop investing in the United States has been ridiculed and rejected by business leaders in the country.
Paris reacted with rage this week over U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariff announcements, with President Macron describing the implementation of reciprocal tariffs as a “brutal and unfounded decision”. Macron went even further though, calling on French and European businesses to cease investing in the United States.
“What would be the message to have big European players who are starting to invest billions of euros in the American economy, at a time when they are hitting us? We need to have collective solidarity,” Macron said per Le Figaro.
Therefore, he said that “upcoming investments or investments announced in
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