{"id":7225,"date":"2026-04-24T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/7225\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:38:08","slug":"france-and-germany-give-themselves-more-time-on-joint-fighter-jet-once-again-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/7225\/","title":{"rendered":"France and Germany give themselves more time on joint fighter jet (once again) \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Our defense ministries have this mandate for the coming weeks; we continue to progress,” Macron said.<\/p>\n

The project, known as the Future Combat Air System (FCAS), has stalled for months because of\u00a0bitter disagreements<\/a>\u00a0between France’s Dassault and Germany’s Airbus Defence and Space.<\/p>\n

FCAS, which also includes Spain, is meant to replace Germany\u2019s Eurofighter and France\u2019s Rafale jets by around 2040. The program includes a warplane, which is the main bone of contention, but also drones and a combat cloud.<\/p>\n

At the previous EU summit in Brussels in March, Macron and Merz discussed the issue and launched mediation <\/a>between French and German industrialists to break the deadlock, with a deadline of April.<\/p>\n

French Armed Forces Minister Catherine Vautrin said this week<\/a> that the deadline to reach a deal had been extended by 10 days, but German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told reporters Wednesday that he expected a decision this week.<\/p>\n

Macron’s comments suggest that several weeks might still be needed but that, at least for France, a solution is within reach.<\/p>\n

Asked whether the project was dead, Macron said, “No, not at all.”<\/p>\n

Laura Kayali contributed to this report from Paris. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Our defense ministries have this mandate for the coming weeks; we continue to progress,” Macron said. The project,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[419,7000,613,420,421,2127,7001,60,393,5,7002,2054,156],"class_list":["post-7225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-boris-pistorius","tag-cloud","tag-cooperation","tag-defense","tag-drones","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-eu-summit","tag-france","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-macron","tag-space","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}