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France: Nuclear doctrine to be updated in early 2026, Emmanuel Macron announced
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Newsroom October 1 07:02Emanuel Macron announced today that he will give a speech “at the beginning of 2026 “on France’s nuclear doctrine that is “being updated”, in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
“I am currently working on updating our doctrine, and I wish to continue to deepen our strategic dialogue with the Europeans who want it.
There is, in any case, a European dimension since 1962,” said the French president, whose country is the only one in Europe, along with the United Kingdom, to have a nuclear bomb.
The possibility that other European countries could benefit from the French nuclear deterrent has been persistently raised in recent months against fears that they can no longer count on the American umbrella.
“We will be naive if we do not recognize that the Russian secret army is spreading in our democracies.