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Submarine crisis: after appeasement with the United States, France remains alone with its problems

2021-09-24T03:43:14.531Z


DECRYPTION - If Joe Biden expressed his regrets to Emmanuel Macron, France must learn the lessons of the diplomatic crisis.


The French boiler has calmed down and the American fridge has warmed up.

The thirty minutes of telephone conversation between Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron have done good on both sides of the Atlantic.

What the French president obtained from his American counterpart on Wednesday is not nothing.

Regrets of Joe Biden who promises to restore "

consultation

".

Its recognition that France and the European Union have a role to play in the Indo-Pacific region.

Its support for "

a stronger and more efficient European defense

", an incessant demand from France.

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It is a new tone on the American side, since until then, support for European defense had always been ambiguous.

Another positive sign, the content of the conversation, which was the subject - it is not always the case - of a joint statement, seems to have been interpreted in the same way on both sides of the Atlantic.

The American president hopes that this examination of the differences is a "

step

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Source: lefigaro

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