Macron opened to deploy French nuclear weapons in Europe

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that he was open to discuss the possible deployment of his country’s nuclear weapons elsewhere in Europe.The comment came into an interview with French Broadcaster TF1 on Tuesday evening.Macron said that the United States already gives the station to the nuclear-head aircraft in Europe.“Americans have bombs on planes in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Türkiye,” Macron said. “We are ready to open this discussion.”“I will define the structure in a very specific way in the coming weeks and months,” he said.Macron lists the conditions for sharing the nuclear umbrella of FranceIn the interview, Macron clarified that any expansion of the nuclear preventive of France in other European countries would be subject to situations.France, the only nuclear power of the European Union, will not pay for the safety of others, and its own defense abilities should remain completely intact, insisting.Macron said that the final control over the use of weapons would also be completely with the French President.According to data from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, France held around 280 nuclear warheads in 2024.Its army has the power to use jet to start them independently of its submarines or to leave them from the sky.Britain also has nuclear weapons, some of which are 225 stockpils. But the country’s trident nuclear submarine program is closely connected to the American system and depends on the US for maintenance.It “enhances concerns about” [Trident’s] Freedom, according to the UK Think Tank Chautham House.Germany and other French open for nuclear offerIn March, march, while interacting with European colleagues, said how French nuclear weapons can help protect Europe.These comments come because many European leaders feel that they can no longer rely on the US nuclear commitment to Europe amidst Russian threat concerns for the continent.German Chancellor Frederick Merz has also expressed interest in hosting French nuclear weapons in his country.However, he stressed at a joint press conference with Macron in Paris last week, “It would” be clearly not an alternative to the United States being currently a nuclear guarantee being given to Europe. “Merz has also emphasized in the past that Germany “cannot be its nuclear weapon and should not be.”20 US nuclear weapons are already stationed on a German military airbase.Poland, Denmark and Lithuania have said in the past months that they were open to such a possibility.Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated in March that Poland was “speaking seriously” about French being protected by French nuclear weapons.Interest in Eastern Europe is closely associated with the possibility of Russian aggression after Ukraine’s own invasion, but Macron was careful not to increase tension with Moscow.In his Tuesday interview, he also said that France did not want to do “World War III” on Russia’s war in Ukraine.“We should help protect Ukraine, but we did not launch the third world war.”He said, “War should be closed and Ukraine must be in the best possible position to go into conversation,” he said.