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Australian submarines: "France must only count on itself if it wants to weigh again tomorrow"

2021-09-17T18:16:26.585Z


TRIBUNE - The commercial and diplomatic slap inflicted by the Americans on France must be a lesson in lucidity and make us adopt a much more demanding strategy on these questions, argues the deputy LR Jean-Louis Thiériot, member of the defense committee.


Deputy for Seine-et-Marne, former president of the departmental council, Jean-Louis Thiériot is also a lawyer at the court and a historian.

Last published work: “De Gaulle, the last reformer” (Tallandier, 2018).

The cancellation by Australia of the order for twelve conventional submarines from the flagship of the French naval industry Naval Group for the benefit of eight American nuclear submarines is a commercial slap in the face.

The creation with great fanfare of the Ankus, a military axis uniting the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, a diplomatic slap in the face.

First of all, this is bad news for our industry, the 16,000 employees of Naval Group and all of the subcontractors: 32 billion euros lost.

Even if the contracts are undoubtedly sufficiently bordered to limit the financial losses in the short term, it is a hard setback for a sector which chains the disappointments with the export.

In Poland, Morocco, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Naval Group is apparently no longer consulted,

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Source: lefigaro

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