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Alice Tidey

Macron defends FCAS jet project as Merz and Airbus float two-fighter option

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday stuck to his position that Europeans should develop a single common fighter jet, despite his German counterpart and Airbus both expressing their willingness to look into a two-fighter solution.

"We Europeans, if we understand the direction history is taking us, have an interest in standardising, simplifying and therefore having a common model," Macron told reporters while on a visit to India.

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