Paris: "Article Five of the NATO Charter should not be transformed into Article F-35"

"Sovereign Europe and the Transatlantic Alliance" must be able to "mutually reinforce each other," Parly said in an interview with the Sunday Journal on the eve of the Alliance summit on 3 and 4 December.

The United States must not impose its American allies on NATO allies under the pretext of Atlantic solidarity, said the Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, in an interview with the Sunday newspaper granted in the context of the United States. next Alliance summit, December 3 and 4 in London.

"Article 5 of the NATO Charter, which requires solidarity among Alliance members, should not be transformed, under pressure from Washington, into Article F-35, which would force the same to buy American, as if we were in a purely transactional vision of collective security, "she said.

In this context, she asserted that Europe still had to adjust its "military tools to live up to what it is as an economic and political power."

"NATO will never be the tool of our sovereignty. It is up to the Europeans to build their own sovereignty. It will not happen in a snap of fingers. But we must stop believing that we must choose between Europe and NATO. We want sovereign Europe and the Transatlantic Alliance. Both must be mutually reinforcing, "she said.

Florence Parly also felt it necessary to dialogue with Russia.

"It's not being" nice "with the Russians to talk to them (…). But without dialogue there will be no security.

The common enemy of NATO

At a press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Emmanuel Macron declared on November 28 that NATO's common enemy was neither Russia nor China, but terrorism.

Referring to Emmanuel Macron's statement on NATO's "brain death", Florence Parly had previously indicated that it was "healthy for an organization to rethink" and that France considered it necessary "to launch with the allies a real strategic thinking on the future of the alliance ".