EU mutual assistance clause is unambiguous, France’s Macron says

France's President Emmanuel Macron gestures arsenic helium participates successful a media league with Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis astatine Maximos Mansion successful Athens, Saturday. [AP]

The European Union’s communal assistance clause is unambiguous, French President Emmanuel Macron said connected Saturday during a visit ⁠to Greece.

Macron, ⁠speaking astatine a quality league ​with Greek Prime Minister ⁠Kyriakos Mitsotakis, told reporters: “On nonfiction 42, paragraph ⁠seven … ‌we ⁠know that for us, it is ​clear and there is nary ‌room for mentation oregon ambiguity, if I whitethorn accidental so, ​on this clause.”

EU leaders person asked ‌officials to hole ​a blueprint for however the bloc’s antecedently obscure ⁠mutual assistance ‌clause would work, ​amid doubts implicit US ‌commitment ⁠to ⁠the NATO subject alliance. [Reuters]