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France is one of the founding countries in 1949 of the North Atlantic Alliance to the emergence of which it actively contributed. Since then, France has never called into question its membership of the Alliance in its dual political and military dimensions.
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]
France is the third-largest contributor to NATO’s military and civil budgets (unique allocation key of 10.63%), behind the United States (22.14%) and Germany (14.65%) and ahead of the United Kingdom (9.85%) and Italy (8.41%).
De Gaulle’s 1966 decision to withdraw France from NATO’s integrated military command sent shock waves through NATO’s member states. It was a reminder of the fissures within the North Atlantic...
Did you know that France hosted NATO for 15 years? And that although it withdrew from NATO’s military structure in 1966, it remained an Ally? What was President de Gaulle's rationale? How did that arrangement work in practice? What was France’s role within the Alliance during the Cold War period?
France is investing for a future as a leader among NATO’s European member states. French forces lead NATO’s multinational battlegroup in Romania, and French planes, ships and forces are working alongside other Allied forces from the Baltic to the Black Sea to bolster the Alliance’s Eastern Flank.
The French will now be re-evaluating their role in Nato. Their military participation in the organisation was suspended by De Gaulle in 1966 and only restored by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2009. There...
Communiqué approved by the NATO Heads of State and Government at the Brussels Summit on June 14 2021.
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Monday (24 June 2024) to discuss preparations for the Washington Summit in July. The Secretary General praised France's key role in the Alliance, including its contributions to collective defence on the eastern flank with deployments in Romania and Estonia.
As war is back on the European continent, France wants to focus on boosting the European Union’s defense capacity building — the bloc of 27 nations’ security is still largely dependent on the U.S. and NATO.