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“It’s really a stab in the back. We had established a relationship of trust with Australia, this trust has been betrayed,” Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France Info.

“I’m very angry today and bitter… it’s not something the allies are doing to each other,” he said, noting that Australia would now have to explain how they would exit the contract.
President Joe Biden’s administration was reminiscent of his predecessor Trump, who infuriated Europe with unpredictable decision-making.

“This sudden and unpredictable one-sided move is a very reminder of what Mr. Trump would do,” Le Drian added, describing what happened “unacceptable” and “incomprehensible.”

The White House said US officials had high-level talks with Paris before phone number library announcing the new contract with Australia, but a spokesperson for the French embassy in Washington said he didn’t there had been no consultation on the agreement.

“We were not informed until the first news of this agreement was published in the American and Australian press, hours before Joe Biden’s official announcement,” he said.

The French naval group, partly state-owned, had been chosen to build 12 conventionally powered submarines for Australia, based on the French Barracuda nuclear submarines under development.