PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron will host Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney for a meeting in Paris on Monday in Carney's first foreign visit since taking office, Macron's office said on Saturday.

Newly sworn in Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Monday to discuss strengthening economic and commercial ties. His visit comes as Canada finds itself in the middle of a trade war with the United States,

But his assertion in a speech this weekend that some Americans “have chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants” reflects the broad shockwaves that U.S. President Donald Trump's seismic shifts in foreign and domestic policy are triggering in France and elsewhere in Europe.

The Trump administration will not entertain a French politician’s request to return the Statue of Liberty to France. “Absolutely not. My advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind them that it’s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now,

A French member of the European parliament demanded the United States return the Statue of Liberty to France, arguing that America no longer upholds the values of the gift.