{"id":20012,"date":"2026-06-09T14:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/20012\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T14:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:56:15","slug":"pure-stupidity-belgian-pm-slams-franco-german-fighter-jet-failure-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/20012\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pure stupidity\u2019: Belgian PM slams Franco-German fighter jet failure \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belgium’s Prime Minister \u00a0Bart De Wever on Tuesday slammed France and Germany for failing to agree on a joint program to build a new fighter jet.<\/p>\n

“I was extremely disappointed to read that France and Germany cannot reach agreement on the development of a European sixth-generation airplane. What a waste of time, what arrogance,” he said<\/a> at an event in Brussels, adding: “This is that we have chosen, to be irrelevant in a crucial part of air defense, not only now, but in a decade as well. This is pure stupidity.” <\/p>\n

The Future Combat Air System, which also involves Spain, was meant to replace Germany\u2019s Eurofighter and France\u2019s Rafale jets by around 2040. Belgium is an observer member. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium’s Prime Minister \u00a0Bart De Wever on Tuesday slammed France and Germany for failing to agree on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[2970,76,7,1597,834,115,172,12738,429,254,116],"class_list":["post-20012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-air-defense","tag-bart-de-wever","tag-belgium","tag-defense","tag-drones","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-military-aviation","tag-multinational-defense-programs","tag-procurement","tag-spain"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116720735641148232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}