EU vs. Türkei

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NEW: For the first time, a major Western leader has said out loud what many in Europe have been thinking privately: NATO's Article 5 the guarantee that an attack on one is an attack on all can no longer be taken for granted. And it wasn't an enemy that put it in doubt. It was Washington.

There is now a doubt on Article 5 not put on the table by the Europeans, but by the US president," Macron said in Athens, standing next to the Greek Prime Minister.

Macron is now pointing to something most people have never heard of Article 42.7, buried in the EU's Treaty of Lisbon and ignored for decades. It is the EU's own mutual defence clause: if a member state is attacked, all others are obligated to assist by all means in their power. Macron called it stronger than Article 5, with "no room for interpretation or ambiguity" and critically, it doesn't require Washington's blessing.

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