Cyprus Mail8 Jun 2026

Germany and France drop joint fighter jet project

The leaders of Germany and France have agreed to scrap a landmark project to develop and build a new-generation fighter jet, two German officials said on Monday, bowing to industrial rivalries over Europe’s most ambitious defence programme.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the troubled project on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans summit in Montenegro last week and concluded there was no prospect of breaking months of deadlock between arms...

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