{"id":66570,"date":"2026-08-18T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/66570\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:37:00","slug":"we-told-you-so-french-far-right-responds-to-european-fighter-jet-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/66570\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We told you so\u2019: French far right responds to European fighter jet failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The collapse of a flagship Franco-German next-generation fighter jet program is providing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifri.org\/en\/regions\/europe\/france\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a>&#8216;s main far-right party with fresh ammunition to attack the European-oriented defense strategy of President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p>In line with a military vision centered on France&#8217;s domestic priorities, the National Rally argued for years that Paris should scrap the jet fighter project and claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifri.org\/en\/regions\/europe\/germany\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Germany <\/a>was looking to take advantage of the French arms industry.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Berlin has pulled the plug, senior far-right officials are claiming they have been vindicated and are seeking to score political points from the demise of Macron&#8217;s integrationist dream, less than a year before a presidential election in which the National Rally is leading the polls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a failure for Franco-German cooperation but first and foremost, a personal failure for President Macron,&#8221; far-right leader Jordan Bardella said in an exclusive interview that will be released in its entirety Monday.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Now, the National Rally is confident France can build its own next-generation fighter jet program alone, despite worries about ballooning costs. That echoes Dassault CEO Eric Trappier&#8217;s argument during FCAS talks that France doesn&#8217;t need a partner to make a fighter jet.<\/p>\n<p>As Bardella put it in his interview: &#8220;I have complete confidence in our companies, Dassault has exceptional expertise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the financial hurdles to going it alone are daunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The collapse of a flagship Franco-German next-generation fighter jet program is providing France&#8216;s main far-right party with fresh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13060],"tags":[4664,2240],"class_list":["post-66570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dassault-aviation","tag-dassault","tag-dassault-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}