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French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech during the European Youth Festival "Fete de l'Europe" (Festival of Europe) in front of the Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche) in Dresden, eastern Germany, on May 27, 2024. Macron is undertaking the first state visit by a French president to Germany in a quarter of a century. (Photo by RONNY HARTMANN / AFP)
Europe needs to "wake up" to authoritarian tendencies among far-right parties and governments, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday, ahead of key European Union elections.
"Everywhere in our democracies these ideas thrive, pushed by the extremes and in particular the far right. This bad wind is blowing in Europe, so let us wake up," Macron said in a speech in the eastern city of Dresden, during his state visit to Germany.
