Anglo-French defence pact: The two musketeers | Editorial Neither France nor Britain can afford the role they want to play in the world. Yesterday's deal was pragmaticBritain and France account for nearly half of all military spending in the EU, half of the total number of armed forces and 70% of military research and development. Together they make up a critical mass of Europe's military capabilities. But neither country can afford the role it has carved out for itself. Nor can they keep up with the Joneses – in this case the Americans. So it makes eminent pragmatic sense for the two countries to start pooling resources, which is what happened yesterday.Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron announced a deal in London which would create joint testing and developing centres for nuclear weapons, and a joint expeditionary taskforce. Considering how neuralgic the issue of Europe was to the Conservatives in opposition, it is ironic that a Tory prime minister has agreed to share aircraft carriers and squadrons of fast jets, and synchronise nuclear submarine patrols, with the very people that fellow Tories refuse out of principle to sit in the same European parliamentary group with.Of course Mr Cameron had to go out of his way to state explicitly what the Lancaster House deal was not: it was not about a European army, and the two countries were not going to share nuclear deterrents. The two countries will share the same super-fast computer to simulate a nuclear test, but not the data garnered from it, if one can believe that. Mr Sarkozy also had to perform a pas de deux around the issue of sovereignty. As co-operation develops and deepens in the next 50 years, the distinction between the two nations sharing military resources (currently a taboo word) and allowing operations on each other's aircraft carriers, or refuelling planes from eac どちらもフランスや英国は、世界でプレーする役割を与えることができます
Video: David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy set out joint defence strategy The prime minister and the French president sign 50-year treaties to bring about closer co-operation between the countries' armed forces and on their nuclear deterrents
首相は、50年の条約は、各国の武装勢力との間の核抑止力に約より緊密な協力関係を持ってフランス大統領記号