Budget overruns & culture clashes over long vacations plagued the $50 billion submarine deal France

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got booted from in favor of the US and UK

France received only a few hours' notice that Australia planned to cancel a $50 billion submarine contract with French shipbuilders, The New York Times reported, sparking fury in Paris.

But the deal had been plagued for several years by culture clashes between the two countries as well as lengthy disputes over budgets.

French officials were enraged this week after Australia announced it was cancelling a deal for French firm Naval Group to build its new fleet of submarines.

Instead, Australia signed a security pact between the UK and US, under which Australia is due to build a generation of nuclear submarines, drawing on American and British expertise.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/budget-overruns-culture-clashes-over-121033257.html

[spooky3]

1. This story sounds fishy. The whole world knows that most Western European cultures

give employees the month of August, plus other time, off. It's hard to believe that the Australians who negotiated the contract didn't know about this or consider it in writing terms.