Hawkish Macron finds favour in Nato's frontline states

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.

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