PARIS: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday that he wants to"re-establish cooperation", Macron's office said, amid a diplomatic crisis over a submarine contract with Australia.
In the conversation, which the Elysee said came at Johnson's request, the British prime minister said he hoped for cooperation"in line with our values and our common interests", such as the battle against climate change, securing the Indo-Pacific region and the fight against terrorism.French fury over what it sees as a"stab in the back" over the submarine contract saw Macron recall the French ambassadors to Washington and Canberra in an unprecedented diplomatic protest.
Using franglais, Johnson this week appealed to France to"donnez-moi un break", calling for calm after tempers flared in France, while also telling Paris to"prenez un grip" .The submarine spat brought relations between Paris and London to their worst since Britain's 2016 vote to leave the European Union.
The submarine deal"created a legitimate anger in France and clearly dealt a serious blow to trust and cooperation between France and the UK in a relationship already strained by years of post-Brexit disputes", said Hans Kundnani and Alice Billon-Galland, analysts at the Chatham House policy institute.
France wouldn’t be that naive, would they?
France won’t pick up the phone from Australia. Nor will China. Biden wants an American base in Australia. Has Australia ever had such an inept foreign policy
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