Germany and France initiate nuclear cooperation as Europe seeks greater security independence
German conventional forces will join a French-run nuclear exercise before year-end as Berlin and Paris seek stronger European deterrence.
- On Friday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron announced that German conventional forces will participate in French-led nuclear exercises before year's end at Norvenich air base near Cologne.
- Merz noted that 'the world we live in today requires new answers' regarding nuclear cooperation, reversing decades of German policy after Previous German leaders consistently declined such offers from France.
- France remains the 27-nation European Union's only nuclear power since Brexit, while the United Kingdom, Poland, and the Netherlands have expressed interest in the French nuclear initiative.
- The cooperation 'complements' NATO commitments, Macron said, with Germany playing a 'vanguard role' in deterrence efforts to create 'strategic doubt' among adversaries, according to the French president.
- Leaders seek to reinvigorate bilateral ties after a $100 billion joint fighter jet program collapsed in June, deepening European defense self-reliance amid growing concerns about future U.S. security commitments.
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Dnevni list Danas
vijesti.meThe leaders of Germany and France announced today that the German military will participate in nuclear military maneuvers as part of the French initiative to deepen European nuclear cooperation. This move by the two states indicates that Europeans are increasingly relying on themselves in the field of defense, given concerns about the willingness of the United States to adhere to security arrangements with Europe in the future.
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For the first time the German army will be involved in strategic maneuvers with the ally: operational step towards the extension of the Paris nuclear umbrella to Europe. Rafale hunt in the base of Nörvenich, near Cologne
El Periódico
Germany will join the French nuclear umbrella, which will materialize with the first compatible atomic maneuvers of its history. German soldiers will participate from their status as members of the conventional army, while the French side will incorporate the atomic component. "We want to strengthen cooperation (in nuclear deterrence) step by step. It may be that in the end there is a new doctrine but it is too early to say so," said Chancellor …
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