French President Emmanuel Macron has spoken with Prime Minister Scott Morrison for the first time since the shock scrapping of a $90 billion dollar submarine deal, telling his Australian counterpart the decision "broke the relationship of trust" between the nations.The European leader also urged Australia to adopt "ambitious" emissions reduction targets at next week's global climate conference in Glasgow and commit to ending coal production and consumption. "President Macron recalled that Australia's unilateral decision to scale back the French-Australian strategic partnership by putting an end to the ocean-class submarine programme in favour of another as-yet unspecified project broke the relationship of trust between our two countries," a French readout of a Thursday phone call between the two leaders said.
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