French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed starting debates on expanding French nuclear defense in Europe - an idea that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk described as "very promising", Agence France-Presse reported, BTA reports.
Macron made the proposal in a televised address, stressing that the decision to use France's nuclear arsenal would remain entirely in the hands of the French president.
“The nuclear umbrella is what can give us a clear advantage over Russia“, Tusk said before the start of an extraordinary EU summit on Ukraine in Brussels.
He stressed that in the context of the arms race and the changing US approach to Europe, European countries must accept this challenge and win the strategic competition.
“I am convinced that Russia will lose this race, just as the Soviet Union lost a similar one in the 1980s“, Tusk said.
Poland, one of Ukraine's most active supporters since the Russian invasion in 2022, is investing 5% of its GDP on defense, AFP notes.