{"id":446311,"date":"2025-09-23T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/446311\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:01:14","slug":"no-talks-between-germany-and-uk-sweden-on-fighter-jet-german-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/446311\/","title":{"rendered":"No talks between Germany and UK, Sweden on fighter jet, German minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BERLIN (Reuters) -The German government is not in talks with Britain and Sweden to explore alternatives to the Franco-German FCAS programme for the joint development of a sixth generation fighter jet, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;No, there are no such talks,&#8221; he told reporters in Berlin when asked about reports last week by the Financial Times and Politico that Germany was exploring such alternatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There will be a meeting in Berlin in October with France, Spain and Germany to discuss how to proceed, he said, adding: &#8220;It is clear that, by the end of the year, there must and will be a decision taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Sabine SieboldEditing by Maria Martinez and Gareth Jones)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (Reuters) -The German government is not in talks with Britain and Sweden to explore alternatives to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[7668,2000,299,41268,8387,1824,150522,63525,812],"class_list":{"0":"post-446311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-boris-pistorius","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-franco-german","12":"tag-german-government","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-joint-development","15":"tag-sixth-generation-fighter","16":"tag-sweden"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115254688751780652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446311","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=446311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}