Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron called for "modernization" of international bodies, saying that "the UN Security Council no longer produces useful solutions today."

In a long interview with "Le Grand Continent," Macron pointed out that "it must be taken into account that the frameworks of multilateral cooperation are today weak, because they are obstructive."

"I am obliged to note that the UN Security Council is no longer producing useful solutions today: we all bear a joint responsibility when some become hostages to crises of pluralism, such as the World Health Organization," he added.

With the exception of a video conference in April, the Security Council, which includes permanent members the United States, China, France, Britain and Russia, remained silent about the COVID-19 crisis, which is the worst health crisis the world has seen since World War II.

In a parallel line, US President Donald Trump accused the World Health Organization of being too close to China and his administration began measures to withdraw the United States from the UN organization.

Faced with this reality, Macron considered that the correct “path” at the present time is “to strengthen and build Europe politically” because “if we want to create cooperation, balanced poles must be able to build this cooperation around a new pluralism, which means (establishing) Dialogue between the different forces to take decisions together.

"We must succeed in reinventing beneficial forms of cooperation, coalitions of projects and actors, and we must succeed in modernizing structures and rebalancing these relationships," he added.

Macron considered that ensuring that "a strong Europe" is "the only possibility to re-impose our values to avoid the Sino-American bilateral monopoly, the collapse and the return of hostile regional powers."

The French president also affirmed that he “strongly opposes” an article written by German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karnbauer and published by Politico Europe, in which it stated that “the illusions of European strategic independence must end: Europeans will not be able to play America's decisive role as a security provider.”

"I think it is a wrong interpretation of history. Fortunately the chancellor (Angela Merkel) is not of that view, if she understands things well," the president said.

He believed, "The United States will not respect us as its allies unless we are serious with ourselves and if we are sovereign in our own defense."

"So I think that the change of the US administration is an opportunity to continue, in a completely peaceful and calm manner, what the allies must understand among themselves: We need to continue building our independence for ourselves, as the United States does for itself, and as China does for itself," he said.