Macron to outline nuclear vision amid European unease over US alliance

PARIS, Feb 26 - President Emmanuel Macron will update France’s nuclear doctrine on Monday, ruling out shared European control while outlining what Paris can offer allies worried about the reliability of the U.S. nuclear umbrella under President Donald Trump. Read more at straitstimes.com.

PARIS, Feb 26 - President Emmanuel Macron will update France’s nuclear doctrine on Monday, ruling out shared European control while outlining what Paris can offer allies worried about the reliability of the U.S. nuclear umbrella under President Donald Trump.

Although France and Britain are both nuclear powers, most European countries rely primarily on the United States for deterring any potential adversaries — a decades-old pillar of transatlantic security.

But Trump's rapprochement with Russia on the Ukraine war and his harsher posture towards traditional allies - including threats to seize Greenland, an autonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark - have rattled European governments.

Earlier this month in Munich, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Berlin had opened discussions with France on a potential European nuclear deterrent, something that Macron said should be a "holistic approach of defence and security".

Other states, including traditionally pro-U.S. Nordic nations, have cautiously expressed interest.

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