Estonia is “in discussion” with France to join an enhanced nuclear deterrence, Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal told AFP, after Finland announced it had joined France’s forward nuclear deterrence initiative on Monday.
“This is not this kind of (initiative) that you just join … It needs certain capabilities, readiness and so on,” Michal told AFP at the sidelines of an European Arctic Summit.
“We are under NATO’s nuclear umbrella already. And France is also backing up our independence with the troops in Estonia. So if the cooperation can be deeper in nuclear field, that probably will go so,” he said.
