French President Emmnanuel Macron emphasized that any common nuclear deterrence should not go to the detriment of the defense capacities of France.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday (May 13th) that it was open for talks on the potential deployment of his country’s nuclear weapons in other parts of Europe. He said that in the French TF1 television statement on Tuesday evening.
Macron noted that the United States already has aircraft with nuclear weapons in Europe.
“Americans have bombs on planes in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Turkey,” Macron said.
“We are ready to open this discussion. I will define the frame in a very specific way in Sundays and months coming,” he said.
Macron cites the conditions that must be met that France could share their nuclear umbrella with others. The French president has made it clear that any expansion of the French nuclear deterrent to other Europeans will depend on the fulfillment of these conditions.
France, the only nuclear force of the European Union, would not pay for the safety of others, and its own defense skills must remain completely intact, he emphasized.
The final control over the use of weapons would also remain exclusively in the French President, Macron said.
France is 2024. had about 280 nuclear warheads, according to the International Institute for Peace Research in Stockholm.
Her army has the ability to launch them from their own submarines or to use jets.
Britain also has nuclear weapons, about 225 stored inboxes. But the State program of Nuclear Submarine Trident is closely connected to the American system and relies on the Washington in maintenance. According to the British Trust of Brain, I Chat House this causes “independence concerns” in the nuclear military program.
Germany and others open to the French nuclear proposal
Macron was proposing the maintenance of talks with European allies in March in March about how French nuclear weapons could help protect Europe. Macron’s statements came at the time that many European leaders believe that they can no longer rely on nuclear protection of the United States, just when there is growing concern due to Russian threats continent.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz also expressed interest in that French nuclear weapon is stationed and Germany.
However, he emphasized at the joint press conference with Macron in Paris last Sunday, that it “would not be a substitute for a nuclear guarantee that the United States Europe currently give Europe. Merz also emphasized that Germany “cannot and may not have their own nuclear weapons.”
Up to 20 nuclear warheads has already been stationed in German military bases. Poland, Denmark and Lithuania have given signals in recent months that they are open to such a possibility. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in March for Poland “seriously talks” with French about the protection of French nuclear weapons.
Interest in Europe is associated with fear of further Russian aggression after its invasion of Ukraine, but Macron was careful not to raise tensions with Moscow. In his interview on Tuesday, he also said that France did not want to launch the “third world war” due to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“We need to help Ukraine defend, but we don’t want to start the third world war,” Macron said.
“The war must stop and Ukraine must be in the best possible situation to go in negotiations,” he added.
(News.ba / DW)
