Overview
- The two leaders signed a declaration affirming that their independent nuclear deterrents can be coordinated under a new joint supervision group.
- They co-chaired a Coalition des Volontaires meeting to expand a joint expeditionary force capable of deterring Russia once a Ukraine ceasefire is in place.
- French energy giant EDF finalized a 12.5 percent stake in Britain’s Sizewell C nuclear plant to deepen bilateral energy cooperation.
- Paris and London agreed to pilot a “one-for-one” scheme under which the UK returns Channel migrants to France in exchange for legal asylum admissions.
- France will lend the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum in exchange for Sutton Hoo artifacts; Macron also urged mutual recognition of a Palestinian state.