"We live on the same continent. Russia today also threatens our security. Russia attacked Ukraine and it could be us tomorrow or the day after tomorrow," Macron said in a speech to a youth audience in the German city of Dresden. The official defended a "new common security concept", a base on which the necessary capacities, means and projects will be decided. "The technological projects that we must develop as Europeans," he said. In commercial terms, Europe must also "abandon its naivety" and "protect itself better", building "a European preference", argued Macron, who argued for the need to double the community budget. "Europe is the last place where we are open to the rest of the world without European preference and without rules," lamented the French head of state, in a country averse to protectionist rules. "The European budget must be doubled, either through investment strategies or through joint debt. We need double the investment in Europe," he argued, calling for the creation of a common capital market to attract more private financing. The French leader called the far right a "malignant wind" that is "blowing all over Europe" and urged citizens to defend democracy less than two weeks before the European elections. "Let's look around us at the fascination with authoritarian regimes, let's look around us at the illiberal moment we are living in," Macron warned, adding: "the far right, this malignant wind, is blowing in Europe, it is a reality, so let's wake up." He also called for the "construction of a new paradigm of growth for future generations", a model "that fully assumes solid investment in the climate and the decarbonisation of European economies". Before addressing thousands of young people near the Frauenkirche, a building destroyed in February 1945 by American-British bombing and which was rebuilt after German reunification in 1990, the French President had lunch with young Franco-Germans in the gardens of Moritzburg Castle, near the capital of Saxony. This is the first visit by a French head of state to East Germany since François Mitterrand in 1989. The city of Dresden is emblematic of the economic rebirth of this part of the former East Germany, now known by the flattering name of "Silicon Saxony". On Tuesday, Macron is due to receive the International Peace Prize of Westphalia, in Münster (west), for his "European commitment", before meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Meseberg, near Berlin, for a Franco-German Council of Ministers. The two politicians will once again try to overcome their differences over support for Ukraine and the future of Europe and strengthen the Franco-German partnership, which remains the driving force of the European Union. Read Also: Portugal supports Zelensky since day 1. Remember the events (Portuguese version)