Financial Times Article Rating

Hawkish Macron finds favour in Nato's frontline states

Mar 31, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    44% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    26% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "Finland and the Baltic states are also coalescing around traditional French ideas for the EU to play a bigger role in joint military procurement and defence industry collaboration, with a budget to back it up.
47% : Even Finland, a traditional frugal state opposed to EU borrowing, appears to be on board.
45% : "Rhetoric coming from European leaders that we can't rely on the Americans just gives additional material to Trump," said Rihards Kols, head of the foreign affairs committee of the Latvian parliament.
44% : Macron has credited Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas for spearheading calls for the EU to issue common debt for defence.
38% : He has since concluded Russia poses an existential threat to the EU and to French security.
26% : The Baltic states remain sceptical about beefing up the EU's role in defence at the expense of Nato despite doubts over the US commitment to the alliance should Donald Trump return to the White House.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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