WASHINGTON – The American president Joe Biden he asked for a phone call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, after “serious crisis” erupted due to the sudden, and unexpected, end of a 2016 contract worth at least 66 billion dollars between France and Australia for the construction of 12 conventional diesel-electric submarines. Agreement that the Australian government has instead signed with the United States and the United Kingdom. The spokesman for the French government Gabriel Attal he said “there will be a telephone exchange in the next few days”.
Submarine crisis, Macron’s fury over NATO
by Anais Ginori
Paris reacted harshly to the revocation of the order, recalling the ambassadors to Australia and the United States in protest. “In this crisis, stratigical issues are at stake, before commercial ones, such as the forces present and the equilibrium in the Indo-Pacific. A place where we decide part of our future and relations with China”; Attal explained in an interview with the French channel Bfmtv. “France is an Indo-Pacific country”, said Attal, referring to the French territory of New Caledonia: “It is a problem for Europe too”.
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