France to spell out post-Brexit nuclear weapons strategy

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France is EU's sole nuclear power after Brexit.

France, the European Union's sole nuclear power since Britain's exit from the bloc, will unveil Friday how it intends to use its atomic arsenal as a deterrent in an increasingly unstable world.

"I will focus on the doctrine , but also on the procedures and modalities that I wish to propose on this topic to our partners in the coming months," he said on a visit to Warsaw. Macron has already agreed to a costly modernisation of France's atomic arsenal, arguing in January 2018 that"deterrence is part of our history, part of our defence strategy, and will remain so."

Russia and the US last year withdrew from the Soviet-era Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty, and blamed one another for its demise.- 'Sympathetic ears' - The treaty, which expires this month, obliged both sides to halve their number of strategic nuclear missile launchers and establish a new verification regime.

However,"the balance is shifting, including in countries such as Germany" where public opinion is deeply anti-nuclear and the subject remains largely taboo, but"where we see emerging positions on the level of European strategic ambition that must grow," Brustlein said.

 

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