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Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he did not tell French President Macron he was reneging on a €56 billion submarine contract. Morrison said he secretly worked with the U.S. and U.K. to form an alternative alliance in which the three countries would share advanced defense technologies. The dispute was eventually settled in June 2022, with Australia agreeing to pay France more than half a billion euros to bury the hatchet. When it was first announced in 2016, France called the deal the “contract of the century”