Thierry Breton, an EU commissioner for internal markets, told CNN that 'something is broken between our relations in Europe and the US.'
Tensions between European leaders and the White House over a scuppered submarine deal threatened to overshadow President Joe Biden's address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, with one EU official saying"something is broken" in the transatlantic alliance.
The French government has been seething since last week, when Australia abandoned a huge deal to buy conventional submarines from France. Instead, the US and UK announced they would help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines as part of a new security pact called AUKUS. The move has opened a new fissure in the Western alliance and sparked growing public criticism from other European officials.
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