European Union leaders have rallied behind France in its anger over a multi-billion dollar submarine deal with Australia that was scuppered when Canberra signed up to a trilateral Asia Pacific security pact with the United States and the United Kingdom.
The security pact includes the sale of nuclear-powered submarines to Australia and has strained relations between western countries ahead of the start of this week’s annual gathering of world leaders for the United Nations General Assembly.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says more cooperation, more coordination, less fragmentation was needed to achieve a stable and peaceful Indo-Pacific region where China is the major rising power.
Borrell says the bloc’s foreign ministers expressed clear solidarity with France.
European Union leaders have rallied behind France in its anger over a multi-billion dollar submarine deal with Australia that was scuppered when Canberra signed up to a trilateral Asia Pacific security pact with the United States and the United Kingdom.
The security pact includes the sale of nuclear-powered submarines to Australia and has strained relations between western countries ahead of the start of this week’s annual gathering of world leaders for the United Nations General Assembly.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says more cooperation, more coordination, less fragmentation was needed to achieve a stable and peaceful Indo-Pacific region where China is the major rising power.
Borrell says the bloc’s foreign ministers expressed clear solidarity with France.
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