US EditionNuclear Weapons: Lars Klingbeil Wants to Talk to France About Nuclear Protection
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France wants to expand its nuclear shield – the vice chancellor is ready for discussion. Germany's commitment not to own its own nuclear weapons continues to apply.
Germany and France should talk about nuclear deterrence for Europe, Lars Klingbeil demands.
Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil has lived in the USA for some time. Now, despite Donald Trump's preliminary intervention in the Greenland conflict, he warns of the end of the transatlantic alliance – and wants to talk to France about nuclear weapons.
France offers to make French nuclear weapons more usable for Europe. Lars Klingbeil pleads for a "strategic dialogue", not without pointing out that it does not call into question German participation in US nuclear weapons.
Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) is calling for Franco-German talks on the nuclear protection of Europe. "France has offered to make the French nuclear umbrella more readily available for European security," Klingbeil told Der Spiegel. "We should engage in this discussion." While Germany has committed itself under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons not to possess its own nuclear weapons, and this comm…
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