At the WEF annual meeting of 2023 at Davos Bruno Le Maire Minister of the Economy and Finance since 2017 under President Emmanuel Macron stated that in these last three years Europe has become a super political power like China and the United States:
“We are back discussing over the future of the world and over the best solutions for the world. That’s the first good news. The second good news is that Europe over the last three years has become a super political power like China and like the United States. That’s good news for all of us to have a continent like Europe being able to defend its values to defend its interest. Put in thought we would be divided and we would be weak. We have been united and we have been strong and we will remain united and we will remain strong vis-a-vis Putin and vis-a-vis the war in Ukraine.”