Posted on 11/02/2010 11:15:22 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Britain and France today signed a landmark 50-year treaty on defence and security that envisages the joint use of aircraft carriers, a 10,000-strong joint expeditionary force and unprecedented new levels of co-operation over nuclear missiles.
The deal, signed in London by David Cameron and the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has in part been forced on the two countries as they struggle with tightening defence budgets, but also reflects a level of mutual trust not seen for decades.
At a joint press conference at Lancaster House, Cameron repeatedly stressed that the agreement strengthened British sovereignty as he said it opened a new chapter in Anglo-French relations.
Seeking to defend himself from a Eurosceptic assault, with one Tory MP describing the French as "duplicitous", Cameron stressed the treaties would not weaken British sovereignty and did not amount to a sharing of the UK's nuclear deterrent.
He said: "Britain and France will be sovereign nations able to deploy our forces independently and in
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What! No Germans!
Who knows they may be coming aboard. They are having severe budget problems
Europe will have it’s own army, we are seeing the beginning of it.
Now there will be French Letters all over the British equipment.
I hope that does not happen. There must be some sort of clause that training, equipment,etc is in English.
FYI, french letter is British slang for a condom.
Excellent! All in favour of it.
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