Aircraft carriers deployed by the United States and its NATO ally France made port calls in the Western Pacific Ocean this week, visiting South Korea and Singapore, respectively.
France's Exosens , which supplies night vision systems to NATO, will build a factory in the U.S. as members of the alliance increase defence spending, it said on Monday.
This wasn’t all de Gaulle was right about, it seems. His wariness of the US — he took France out of Nato’s command structure — has aged better than British and German reliance on that superpower. Of Europe’s big three,
Trump has pulled the rug out from under NATO and Ukraine, positioning French president Emmanuel Macron as the Free World’s conductor. Macron champions multilateralism, striving to strengthen the
Asked about NATO Article 5 commitment, Trump says U.S. "not going to defend" allies that fail to meet his spending requirements.
The US president questioned the alliance once more on Thursday, publicly pondering whether NATO countries, including France, would defend the US if attacked. View on euronews
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron is back at the center of global diplomacy, seeking to ease relations with President Donald Trump, championing a Ukraine peace plan alongside his British counterpart, and seeing his longstanding desire to boost European defense turning into reality .
French President Emmanuel Macron said that France was a "loyal and faithful ally" after US President Donald Trump expressed doubt that NATO would come to the US's defence if it was attacked. NATO's Article 5 defence guarantee was invoked following the September 11 attacks against the US.
Former French President François Hollande asserts that President Donald Trump and his administration are "no longer" allies, saying a U.S.-Europe "divorce" could be on the horizon.
Europe is staring down the barrel of a stark new reality where the United States being the backbone of NATO – the alliance that has guaranteed the continent’s security since 1949 for almost 80 years – is no longer a given.