{"id":237067,"date":"2026-07-02T20:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=237067"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:54:28","slug":"end-of-fcas-flagship-project-marks-setback-for-franco-german-cooperation-and-european-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=237067","title":{"rendered":"End of FCAS &#8216;flagship project&#8217; marks setback for Franco-German cooperation and European defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fran\u00e7ois Picard is pleased to welcome Ulrike Franke, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. According to Franke, the demise of the\u00a0Franco-German FCAS fighter jet project was &#8220;not a surprise to anybody&#8221;. While acknowledging that Dassault was often perceived as &#8220;quite difficult to deal with,&#8221; she argues that the deeper problem lay in a structural design flaw that brought together industrial rivals who &#8220;never really had the incentive to properly work together&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/spotlight\/20260610-end-of-fcas-flagship-project-marks-setback-for-franco-german-cooperation-and-european-defense\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran\u00e7ois Picard is pleased to welcome Ulrike Franke, senior policy fellow at the European Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237067-end-of-fcas-flagship-project-marks-setback-for-franco-german-cooperation-and-european-defence.jpg",1024,576,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237067-end-of-fcas-flagship-project-marks-setback-for-franco-german-cooperation-and-european-defence-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237067-end-of-fcas-flagship-project-marks-setback-for-franco-german-cooperation-and-european-defence-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237067-end-of-fcas-flagship-project-marks-setback-for-franco-german-cooperation-and-european-defence-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237067-end-of-fcas-flagship-project-marks-setback-for-franco-german-cooperation-and-european-defence.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237067-end-of-fcas-flagship-project-marks-setback-for-franco-german-cooperation-and-european-defence.jpg",1024,576,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237067-end-of-fcas-flagship-project-marks-setback-for-franco-german-cooperation-and-european-defence.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237067-end-of-fcas-flagship-project-marks-setback-for-franco-german-cooperation-and-european-defence.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237067-end-of-fcas-flagship-project-marks-setback-for-franco-german-cooperation-and-european-defence-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237067-end-of-fcas-flagship-project-marks-setback-for-franco-german-cooperation-and-european-defence-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}