Between Australia and America The European Union confirms “we support France”

As the repercussions of the submarine crisis continue to interact between the US and Australia on the one hand, and enraged France on the other, the European Union has undoubtedly claimed to be on the French side.

European Union Foreign Minister Josep Borrell stressed that the 27 EU countries have expressed their “solidarity” in Paris in the Australian submarine crisis that has erupted between it and the United States.

Borrell said in statements on Monday evening, according to Agence France-Presse, that the bloc’s foreign ministers who held a meeting in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly “clearly expressed their solidarity with France”, underlining that having expressed “clear solidarity”.

‘A case that touches us’

He also added that the 27 foreign ministers felt that the dispute erupted between Paris and Washington after the United States announced the formation of an Indo-Pacific security alliance, including Britain and Australia, was not a “bilateral question”, but a question that has “affected” the entire European Union.

Furthermore, Borrell lamented that this alliance “is not moving towards greater cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region”.

Joseph Borrell (archive - AFP)

Joseph Borrell (archive – AFP)

Interestingly, since last Wednesday (September 15) the tension between the three countries (France, America and Australia) has increased after US President Joe Biden announced the formation of a new strategic alliance that included the US, Australia and Great Britain, in an initiative whose first fruits were to blow up a big deal concluded by Canberra with Paris for the purchase of French-made submarines.

The French capital described the cancellation of that deal as a stab in the back and betrayal, and summoned its ambassador to Canberra and Washington.

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