Ammon News - France has the right to say "no" to its historical ally the United States when it acts in a way deemed unacceptable, the foreign minister said on Friday, warning that the European political order was "in danger".

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot warned that the European political order 'is today in danger'

In his annual address to France's ambassadors, Jean-Noel Barrot warned that the European Union was threatened by adversaries from the outside, and also hit back at US claims Europe faced "civilisational erasure".

European leaders are juggling multiple priorities as they try to come up with a plan to help end nearly four years of Russia's war against Ukraine and formulate a coordinated response to Washington's increasingly assertive foreign policy posture including Donald Trump's designs on Greenland.

"In a matter of months, the new American administration decided and that is its right to rethink the ties that bind us," Barrot said.

"It is also our right to say 'no' to a historical ally, however historical it may be, when its proposal is not acceptable and when we must say 'no'."

The EU, he added, was "threatened from the outside by adversaries who are trying to unravel the bonds of solidarity that unite us" and "from within by democratic fatigue".

"Let's be clear: nothing guarantees today that we will still be living within the European Union as we know it in 10 years," he warned.

France's top diplomat spoke one day after President Emmanuel Macron warned that the United States was "gradually turning away" from some of its allies and "breaking free from international rules", offering some of his strongest criticism yet of Washington's policies under Trump.

AFP