"In France, we are obliged to recognize the fact that Americans are in control of the European politics. We are friends with the United States but as a member of the defense committee in the French parliament, I have to say that the United States has an overwhelming control over European armies and this is not right," the French parliamentarian said, commenting on the speech of Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) meeting in Vienna.
Earlier in the day, Naryshkin said that the main goal of NATO was not the European security but confrontation.
According to the French senator, the Russian speaker in his speech at the OSCE meeting "confronted NATO and the United States and was right about it."
NATO has been increasing its military presence in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea since the outbreak of the conflict in southeastern Ukraine in April 2014, in response to what it considers Russia's aggressive foreign policy.
Russia has repeatedly dismissed the Ukraine-related accusations, warning that increased NATO activities near the country's borders could undermine regional and global stability.
