BERLIN (AFP) — Germany does not need the same new fighter jets as France, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Wednesday, signaling that Berlin could abandon a flagship joint defense project for Europe.
“The French need, in the next generation of fighter jets, an aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons and operating from an aircraft carrier,” Merz told the German podcast Machtwechsel.
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