{"id":1014272,"date":"2026-06-09T00:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1014272\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T00:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:53:13","slug":"germany-and-france-drop-joint-fighter-jet-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1014272\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany and France drop joint fighter jet project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN\/PARIS \u2013 The leaders of Germany and France have agreed to scrap a landmark project to develop and build a new-generation fighter jet, officials said on Monday, bowing to industrial rivalries over Europe\u2019s most ambitious defense program.<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the troubled project on the sidelines of the EU-Western \u200bBalkans summit in Montenegro last week and concluded that there was no prospect of breaking months of deadlock between arms firms \u200cinvolved in \u200cthe plan, German officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Merz has, therefore, advised Macron not to pursue the construction of a joint \u200bfighter aircraft any further, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN\/PARIS \u2013 The leaders of Germany and France have agreed to scrap a landmark project to develop and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1014273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[473,34,2000,299,12165,36,1945,1824],"class_list":["post-1014272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-defense","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-fighter-jets","tag-france","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116717420673224716","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}