BREAKING: France will send its ambassador back to Washington next week after French President Emmanuel Macron and President Joe Biden spoke by phone to address a dispute over submarines. Macron and Biden plan to meet next month in Europe.
Both heads of state “have decided to open a process of in-depth consultations, aimed at creating the conditions for ensuring confidence,” the Elysee and the White House said in a joint statement. Macron and Biden will meet at the end of October in Europe, the statement said.
Macron’s office said the call, which was requested by Biden, is to discuss “the crisis of trust” that led to theMacron expects “clarifications on the American choice to keep a European ally away from key exchanges on an Indo-Pacific cooperation,” the statement said. Paris is calling for “acts, not words only,” including on “the full recognition by our American ally of the need to strengthen European sovereignty and the importance for Europeans to have greater involvement in their defense and security,” Macron’s office said.French government spokesperson Gabriel Attal said the issue was raised by Macron during a weekly Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
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