umbrella
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We hear something about a European nuclear umbrella, apparently to be offered by France to Germany.
For depression, the umbrella synthesis incorporated 57 pooled data analyses covering 800 individual studies and 57,930 participants between the ages of 10 and 90.
From Science Daily
French President Emmanuel Macron, who has previously raised the possibility of extending France's nuclear umbrella across Europe, is scheduled to deliver a major speech on French nuclear doctrine at the end of February.
From Barron's
It is now expected to act as an umbrella political party, with locally based political parties as partners.
From BBC
France and the UK are the only two nuclear powers in Europe - but Germany and many other European nations have traditionally relied on the US nuclear umbrella within the Nato alliance for deterrence.
From BBC
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