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Europe
However,
- Post Suez
- France no longer trusted the motives of Britain
- Fifth Republic had been set up and De Gaulle was the new President
- France was undergoing its own decolonisation difficulties
- De Gaulle did not want to grant access to Europe for Commonwealth countries (although he did for French colonies)
- He did not want Britain to be a trojan horse for American interests
- Britain had just been granted Polaris by the US which confirmed his worries
- Third Force ideas
- Definitive ‘Non’ in 1963