Danes side with US against French criticism of defense deal
ABC News
Denmark is siding with the United States in the dispute with its fellow EU member France over a major Indo-Pacific defense deal
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Denmark is siding with the United States in the dispute with its fellow EU member France over a major Indo-Pacific defense deal.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in a newspaper interview that she wants to warn against turning “concrete challenges, which will always exist between allies, into something they should not be."
France has reacted strongly to the deal between the U.S., Britain and Australia. As part of it, Australia will cancel a multibillion-dollar contract to buy diesel-electric French submarines and acquire U.S. nuclear-powered vessels instead.
The French government is suggesting it was betrayed by the deal, and on Tuesday, the EU agreed to put the dispute at the top of the bloc's political agenda.
