A man seats on the heights of the shipbuilding town of Cherbourg-en-Contentin, France, September 22, 2021. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
CHERBOURG, France (Reuters) - Teaching assistant Georgina was settling into a new life in the shipbuilding town of Cherbourg with her Australian husband when Canberra revealed it was scrapping the $40 billion submarine order that he had been sent to France work on.
Ten months after the couple arrived in France, Georgina was two weeks into a new job when Australia announced that the deal with France's Naval Group to supply a dozen diesel-powered submarines was dead.
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