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SYDNEY: France’s defence relations with Australia have recovered after their 2021 bust-up over a major submarine contract<\/a>, the country’s ambassador said on Sunday (Jul 13).<\/p>\n

Paris expressed its “strong regrets” when Australia tore up a multibillion-dollar deal to buy a fleet of diesel-powered submarines from France, Ambassador Pierre-Andre Imbert said.<\/p>\n

Since the 2022 election of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese<\/a>, however, the defence relationship had been “restarted”, he said.<\/p>\n

“Now, the first pillar of our cooperation is defence and security, so we have a very good level of cooperation,” the ambassador told AFP as French forces joined major military drills around Australia.<\/p>\n

When Australia ditched the French deal, it opted instead to acquire nuclear-powered vessels in a new three-way AUKUS pact with the United States and Britain.<\/p>\n

But a US defence official last month revealed that a review of AUKUS was underway to ensure it “aligned with the President’s America First agenda” and that the US defence industrial base was “meeting our needs”.<\/p>\n

Under the AUKUS deal, Australia would acquire at least three Virginia-class submarines from the US within 15 years, eventually manufacturing its own subs.<\/p>\n

The US Navy has 24 Virginia-class vessels but American shipyards are struggling to meet production targets set at two new boats each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYDNEY: France’s defence relations with Australia have recovered after their 2021 bust-up over a major submarine contract, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[186,2000,299,36,42660],"class_list":{"0":"post-261349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-submarines"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114845476732569482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}