In the case of the contract of submarines, which earned them the wrath of Paris, the United States were "awkward" with France, this partner "of extreme value", recognized Joe Biden, this Friday , during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.
at Villa Bonaparte, the French Embassy to the Vatican in Rome.
"What we did was clumsy and was not done with much elegance," said the American president, adding that France was in his eyes "an extremely valuable partner".
Rediscover a "trust process"
For his part, Emmanuel Macron praised, in front of US President Joe Biden, “the concrete decisions” taken after the Australian submarine crisis which “started a process of renewed confidence” between France and the United States. Citing the consultations of the two countries carried out in recent weeks on the climate, defense or innovation, Emmanuel Macron considered that these were "extremely concrete decisions that support joint actions and initiatives that we are leading in these different fields, which for me is really the start of a process of trust ”.
In French expectations, there is in particular clear support from the Americans for the project of genuine common European defense, dear to Paris.
According to Emmanuel Macron, this idea, which Washington has not always welcomed with the greatest warmth, is entirely compatible with NATO, the transatlantic military alliance led by the United States.
Paris would also like more support for military interventions against jihadists in the Sahel, Emmanuel Macron welcoming the first concrete measures implemented on the ground by the United States.
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