Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Thursday called French President Emmanuel Macron’s position on potentially extending Paris’s nuclear umbrella to European partners “very promising.” According to Tusk,

Poland and Baltic nations welcomed Thursday a proposal by French President Emmanuel Macron to launch talks about using France’s nuclear deterrent to protect the continent from Russian threats, a move Moscow quickly dismissed as “extremely confrontational.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced discussions with European allies on using France’s nuclear deterrent to protect the continent from Russian threats. As the only nuclear power in the European Union,