FRANCE could use its nukes to protect Europe against Russia, president Emmanuel Macron said in a defiant defence speech. The French leader demanded Europe’s future should not “be ...

What if the United States decided to fold up its nuclear umbrella over Europe? In its wake, Europe could either experience ...

Under what conditions could France – the only nuclear power in the EU since Brexit – provide deterrence on a European scale ...

As the early days of Donald Trump's second presidency up-ends established norms, Europe is contemplating what it might mean ...

President Donald Trump has done more in the last eight weeks to shock Europe into taking its defense more seriously than the ...

France is the only EU nation with nuclear capability. But he also made clear that decision would remain solely in the hands of the French president - himself. Confidence that the US would protect ...

POLAND and the Baltic nations welcomed a proposal by French President Emmanuel Macron today to discuss using France’s nuclear weapons as a way to “protect” the continent from Russian threats, a move ...

And with that, experts have ruled out a cash-for-umbrella approach, as the late Wolfgang Schaeuble had suggested in 2022, in which Germany would help fund French nukes. “Financial contribution ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed his readiness to consider the possibility of using French nuclear weapons to defend European allies. Source: Macron's address to the nation on the ...

It is complete, sovereign and entirely French,” Macron said ... such as Germany and Italy, to host US nuclear weapons on their soil and maintain fighter jets capable of carrying them.