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Germany's Schaeuble calls on Berlin to help fund French nukes - report

FILE PHOTO: Germany's acting Parliament President Wolfgang Schaeuble attends the inaugural session of the German lower house of Parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, October 26, 2021. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Germany should contribute towards the costs of France's nuclear arsenal as the threat of nuclear war with Russia looms over Europe, German political veteran Wolfgang Schaeuble said in an interview published on Saturday.

"Now that Putin's accomplices are threatening a nuclear strike every day, one thing is clear to me: we need nuclear deterrence at the European level as well," Schaeuble, a former finance minister who has served as a member of the German parliament for five decades, told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.

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