{"id":18813,"date":"2025-03-05T20:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=18813"},"modified":"2025-03-05T20:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:50:04","slug":"macron-seeks-talks-on-how-french-nuclear-weapons-could-protect-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=18813","title":{"rendered":"Macron seeks talks on how French nuclear weapons could protect Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\">Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=a6e951ba-271e-4e1d-acba-6dbb328bbe40&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron has said he will open talks with allies over how France\u2019s nuclear weapons could protect Europe, as the continent steps up efforts to guard against an emboldened Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a television address on Wednesday, Macron responded to a call by Germany\u2019s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz about whether France and the UK would be willing to do some form of \u201cnuclear sharing\u201d if the US becomes a less reliable partner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur nuclear deterrence protects us. It is complete, sovereign and entirely French,\u201d Macron said. \u201cHowever, in response to the historic call of the future German chancellor, I have decided to open the strategic debate on the protection of our European continental allies through our deterrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EU leaders will hold an emergency summit in Brussels on Thursday about Europe\u2019s defence strategy and military spending, as US President Donald Trump presses Ukraine to reach a peace deal with Russia.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a6e951ba-271e-4e1d-acba-6dbb328bbe40\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}