French minister: “Europe needs second life insurance besides NATO” | Abroad

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“We need a second life insurance policy, not to replace NATO, not against NATO, but to complement NATO,” Séjourné said at a meeting in the Paris suburbs with his German and Polish counterparts.

Séjourné urged moving “from a war of positions to a war of solutions.”

“The Atlantic Alliance is not a contract with a security company,” noted Polish diplomatic chief Radoslaw Sikorski.

Earlier Monday, High Representative of European Foreign Policy Josep Borrell had also said that NATO is not an “à la carte” alliance: “It either exists or it doesn’t.”

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