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Macron to Open Talks on Using France's Nuclear Shield for Europe
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0:38Now PlayingPresident Emmanuel Macron said he’ll enter into talks on using France’s nuclear capabilities to defend European allies.
“Our nuclear deterrent protects us,” Macron said in a televised address Wednesday. “I have decided to open the strategic debate on the protection, through our deterrent, of our allies on the European continent.”
The French president’s remarks came ahead of an emergency meeting of EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday for talks on Ukraine and the continent’s wider security. Macron said his decision follows a request from the German chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz.
The EU and its member states are rushing to mobilize trillions of euros in additional defense funds to counter the threat of Russian aggression and to compensate for President Donald Trump’s dramatic pullback from America’s commitment to European security. The US nuclear security umbrella has been a core deterrence policy for Europe.
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