Berlin challenges Paris over nuclear issue

Germany, the pacifist country par excellence, where public opinion is fundamentally hostile to the atom, would be ready to share France's nuclear strike force. This is the shock proposal made by a senior CDU parliamentarian, Angela Merkel's party, on Monday. Berlin "must consider cooperation with Paris on nuclear weapons," the vice-president of the Christian Democrat group Johann Wadephul told Tagesspiegel daily. More specifically, "Germany should be ready to participate in a deterrent with its own capabilities and means," said the elected official.

But like these advertising advertisements which refer to a footnote, Paris has read and welcomed the proposal with caution: it comes with a counterpart which would be enough to kill it in the bud. "France should be ready to place this force under a joint command of the European Union and NATO," said Johann Wadephul, four days before a speech on

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