Both presidents are touring Brazil. What plans do they have for the future together and Macron’s time in the country.
The presidents of France and Brazil They inaugurated on Wednesday a submarine built in the South American country with French technologyin a program that aims to develop Brazil’s first nuclear-powered submarine by the end of the decade.
The Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attended a ceremony at the Itaguaí shipyardnear Rio de Janeiro, where they inaugurated the third diesel-powered submarine built within the framework of a $10 billion partnership.
The inauguration of the French technology submarine
Brazil’s first lady, Janja da Silva, broke a bottle of champagne on the bow of the Tonelero submarine and The two presidents pulled a lever that launched the Scorpene-class ship into the sea.. The submarine program, launched in 2008 during Lula’s previous presidential term, is a partnership with the French state naval group, in which defense contractor Thales has a 35% stake.
He Brazilian government said that its submarine fleet is necessary to defend the almost 7,500 kilometers (4,700 miles) of the coast of Brazil and the waters of the Atlanticwhere the country is developing vast offshore oil fields.
The president of France in Brazil
Macron is on a three-day visit to Brazil, which aims to relaunch the bilateral relationship and the strategic partnership that stalled during the previous government of Jair Bolsonaro, whom the French president criticized for not defending the Amazon rainforest.
Macron landed on Tuesday in the Amazonian city of Belém, where Brazil will host the United Nations COP30 climate negotiations in 2025. Lula met him there and they pledged to work together to stop deforestation in the Amazon by 2030. Macron will meet with businessmen in Sao Paulo on Wednesday and pay a state visit to Brasilia on Thursday.
Source: Ambito
