France is prepared to open discussions with other European countries on deploying French warplanes armed with nuclear weapons on their territory, as the United States does in certain nations, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday.
“The Americans have the bombs on planes in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Turkey,” Macron told TF1 television.
“We are ready to open this discussion. I will define the framework in a very specific way in the weeks and months to come.”
Macron also listed three conditions for such a move, namely that “France will not pay for the security of others” and it “will not come at the expense of what we need.”
“The final decision will always rest with the president of the republic, as the head of the armed forces,” he added.
