If we don’t do that, people will say: “‘Enough, Europe!'” he added, in comments confirmed by his entourage.
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Hollande said Assad “has been the problem – he can not be the solution”. The Islamic State group, formerly known as either ISIL or ISIS, claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Post-war Germany has been traditionally reluctant to send troops overseas, although it has joined UN-mandated missions in the Balkans and elsewhere, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation coalition in Afghanistan. He has met this week with President Barak Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi before flying to Moscow on Thursday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Hollande and Merkel said they hoped tensions would calm between Russia and Turkey – two potential components of the anti-IS alliance – which fell out over the downing of a Russian warplane at the Turkish-Syrian border.
President François Hollande cited specific threats against French interests stemming from Daesh in Syria.
Araud was referring to peace agreements for eastern Ukraine forged in the Belarusian capital in February.
French and Belgian officials say the deal to share data including name, travel itinerary and credit card details would help trace foreign fighters traveling to and from Syria and Iraq.
She was speaking ahead of a working dinner with the French president in Paris on Wednesday (November 25).
“It’s not possible to fight Islamic State with words; you have to fight them militarily”. But his office acknowledges that “coordination” sounds like a far more realistic goal.
The lowering of the threat level came as a surprise, since the government had said it would likely keep the highest threat level until Monday.
As police armed with automatic weapons stood guard, schools and some subway stations in the Belgian capital reopened Wednesday for the first time since emergency measures were imposed four days ago in the wake of the Paris attacks.
French and Belgian authorities have issued public appeals for help in tracking down two men thought to be directly linked to the Paris attack. The person who opened the package discovered white powder and immediately contacted authorities.
Mr Hollande has said he would like Germany to do more in the fight against the extremists. Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen told reporters that the government had also agreed to provide satellite surveillance.
“When the French president asks me to think about what more we can do, then it is our duty to reflect on this and we will also react very quickly here”, she said in Paris.
Since the Paris attacks, France has moved its flagship Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier into the Mediterranean – ensuring it is better placed to bombard IS positions across Iraq and Syria.
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In one step in that effort, Germany said Wednesday it would send 650 soldiers to Mali to provide some relief to French forces battling jihadists in the west African nation.
