Is NATO planning on surrendering anytime soon...

[expat]

I didn't know they had gone either.

I just assumed that all EU members were automatically part of NATO.

Why would you assume that?

[BlightyBoy]

Why would you assume that?

I thought they were aswell, given that we liberated most of their asses at the end of WWII.

Still, I guess this means that France will have to revert to "illegally" selling arms to aggressors, rather than opting out of NATO to legally sell arms to aggressors.

[Rantor]

A sad day for La France.

Their absence from NATO provided a counter-balance from the European perspective.

Eh Yhey stropped off in the sixties thanks to de gaulle's nationalistic posturing.

On a similar vein, his reasons for vetoing Britain's common market entry were equally self serving.

In all, maybe not a bad thing from the frenchiies perspective but hardly a european counter-balance.

[Churchill]

are politely asking to be allowed

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced his country is to return to Nato's military command, reversing four decades of self-imposed exile.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7937666.stm

It was Sarkozy urging the people of France.