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European fighter-jet partnership is verging on a break-up
Germans and Spaniards say France’s Dassault has
made collaboration impossible
Photograph: Getty Images
Feb 11th 2026|Paris|5 min read
POLITICIANS hate to admit when their
pet projects are unravelling. So it is not surprising that on February 9th
Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, rejected reports that a European effort to
build a sixth-generation fighter jet is near collapse. The Future Combat Air
System (FCAS), which he conceived in
2017 with Angela Merkel, then Germany’s chancellor, had an expected price-tag
in the high tens of billions of dollars. It has only become more urgent amid
threats from Russia and fears of American abandonment. Europe’s rising defence
budgets ought to make it easier. But for months it has been likened to a dead
man walking. Mr Macron plans to talk to Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz,
in hopes of restoring it to life.
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