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The recent submarine dispute between France and its allies, the US, UK and Australia, has highlighted the need for improved communication between allies and the importance of a European military force to act as a compliment to NATO, said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in an interview with FRANCE 24 on Thursday.
Borrell called for a “system” to be put in place to avoid a repeat of a diplomatic spat that saw France recall its ambassadors to the US and Australia last week over Canberra’s scrapping of a multi-billion-dollar French submarine deal.
Following a phone conversation between French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Joe Biden on Wednesday, Paris agreed to send back its recalled ambassador to the US.
Speaking to FRANCE 24 following his meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Borrell said the submarine dispute had implications for the European Union “as whole”. Borrell noted that Australia, the US and UK – or AUKUS – announced the scrapping of the French deal on the very day the EU was set to launch its own Indo-Pacific plan.
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