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Why Macron is offering France’s nukes to Europe

27 February 2025

4:56 AM

27 February 2025

4:56 AM

President Emmanuel Macron has raised the nuclear card. He has offered to provide nuclear cover for Europe as fears intensify that President Trump is moving further away from Nato and from America’s historic obligations towards European allies.

The idea of France, the fourth largest nuclear weapons power in the world, extending its nuclear deterrence is not new.

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