A summit had been held in August this year, wherein, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicholas Sarkozy discussed the huge budgetary limitations that both the countries are undergoing presently.

Following this, they have come up with a new plan to share their aircraft carriers. By the next decade, two new carriers will be introduced, as said by the British; whereas, a new modern carrier is to be commissioned by the French: the Charles de Gaulle, in 2001; besides being infected with a blanket of troubles prior to the launch itself.

With this new pact, UK is likely to enter into a ship- sharing agreement with France. To carry on with this deal, Defence Secretary Liam Fox will meet his French counterparts in Paris. But the Unions are of the view that thousands of Clyde shipyard jobs are deliberately being put to risk by this step. UK, with this, is going to downgrade one of its two replacement carriers, worth £5.2 billion, announced in the year 2007.

Gordon Matheson, Leader of Glasgow City Council, said, "I will be working with the unions on the Clyde, political colleagues and BAE to ensure efforts to save these contracts and jobs are as effective and co-ordinated as possible. This is a very big deal for Glasgow".

Thus, this plan renders both its crests and troughs. This deal rises despite the fact that there had been a time when the British and the French had been rivalries with each other.