ISTANBUL

US President Donald Trump’s series of remarks voicing US designs over several territories worldwide laid bare an order without laws that apply to everyone, warned the French prime minister on Monday.

“The 47th US president’s statements about the Panama Canal, Gaza, Greenland, and even Canada have revealed a stunning reality: There is no longer a law that applies to all," said Francois Bayrou in the French parliament or National Assembly.

He added that Europeans are unprepared for a world in which "the law is considered negligible."

Bayrou said France and the European continent are facing a "historic situation that, in our opinion, is the most serious, the most destabilized, and the most dangerous of any that our country and our continent have faced since the end of the Second World War."

The US' alliance with itself, its history, and its ideal of defending justice and protecting the weak against tyranny are now compromised, he said.

“It is the end of the rule of justice and the return of the rule of the strongest. Thus, by the decision of a single individual, who has become a leader of the pack, we see being denied and betrayed over 100 years of efforts to free humanity from its natural inhumanity,” he added.

Bayrou also claimed that scene last Friday at the White House with US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at odds had shown “a will to humiliate” the Ukrainian president.

“A staggering scene, marked by brutality and a will to humiliate, aimed at forcing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to bow to the demands of his aggressors through threats,” he said, expressing his “gratitude” to Zelenskyy for not having yielded.

The premier underscored that last Friday, they witnessed the “rupture of something precious” – the idea of Western identity and unity, which he claimed to have taken for granted.

Bayrou also blasted Trump’s plan to implement 25% tariffs on the EU’s exports, describing them as “the preparation of a much more brutal, violent, and formidable attack” to dismantle Europe’s regulatory framework.

“They want to subjugate us so that we, too, will bow to the law of the strongest,” he added.

Bayrou pointed to the strength of Europeans, underlining that they should be the ones ensuring Europe's security and defense.

He also stressed that they must help Ukraine by mobilizing resources and sharing equipment and training, further emphasizing that they must not let “American withdrawal condemn Ukraine to defeat.”

“If the Ukrainian dam were to collapse due to our weakness, then have no doubt: sooner or later, it will be our own countries – our union’s countries – that will be targeted,” Bayrou said.

Bayrou also underscored that solidarity and unity are the only possible answer.

“If we allow ourselves to be divided, fragmented, played against each other, then we will all succumb to the rule of those who seek to weaken us in order to dominate us,” he added.