“What we did was awkward and was not done with a lot of elegance,” said the President of the United States at a meeting, in Rome, with his French counterpart. This exchange acts the reconciliation between the two countries allied following the case of the contract of submarines which had provoked the wrath of Paris.
Le Monde with AP and AFP
The United States has been “clumsy” in the case of the submarine contract that earned them the anger of France, this partner “of extreme value,” said Joe Biden Friday, October 29 at Rome meeting French President Emmanuel Macron. “What we did (…) was not done with a lot of elegance,” said the American president, stating however “I felt that France had been informed well before.” / p>
Paris had moved mid-September of the signing of a secret agreement between the United States, Great Britain and Australia which had led to the cancellation of a signed submarine sales contract between France and Australia in 2016.