France offers nuclear shield for Europe as Macron sounds alarm on Russia

PARIS: President Emmanuel Macron has raised the possibility of France offering nuclear protection to its European partners, warning that the continent must confront the growing threat from Russia. France and Britain are Europe’s only two nuclear powers. “Our nuclear deterrent protects us: it is complete, sovereign, French through and through,” Macron said in his televised speech. “But, responding to the historic call of the future German Chancellor, I have decided to open the strategic debate on the protection of our allies on the European continent through our (nuclear) deterrence,” Macron said.…