PARIS (Reuters) - Conservative French presidential front-runner Francois Fillon urged Europe in an interview published on Sunday to boost its defense capacities with a pooled fund to finance foreign operations.
While the NATO alliance was in his view not "obsolete" as U.S. President Donald Trump has said, Europe nonetheless needed to build up its own capacities, Fillon said in a interview with French daily Le Monde and German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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