EU Commissioner Warns ‘Something is Broken’ in Transatlantic Ties in Wake of AUKUS Sub Snub

Ties between France and its US, British and Australian allies sunk to an unprecedented low, with Paris withdrawing its ambassador to Washington for the first time since relations were established in 1778, in the wake of the creation of a new trilateral security alliance dubbed ‘AUKUS’, which gyped France out of a $65 billion submarine contract.