Two articles published today by the economic site lesechos.fr highlight the difficulties encountered by Franco-German defense cooperation. In Anne Bauer's first article, it is above all a question differences of position on Defense issues at the political and cultural level, France remains a nation which feels the responsibility to intervene, whereas Germany, after the Second World War, only envisages a purely defensive aspect for its forces, this generating significant differences when designing the MGCS program for tanks and heavy armored vehicles to come. The second article, complementary to the first, is also written by Anne Bauer accompanied by Ninon Renaud, treats industrial cooperation difficulties between the two countries on Defense programs, and in particular on arbitration concerning industrial sharing between French and German manufacturers.
If, in fact, defense industrial cooperation programs are threatened today, at least in terms of deadlines, by political procrastination in Germany, it is not so much because of differences in perception between the two countries, than an eminently unstable program structure. Thus, in the article Franco-German industrial cooperation could be structurally unstable", article of December 12, 2018, we pointed out the risks posed to all the MGCS, FCAS, EuroMALE, CIFS and MAWS, industrial sharing on a global scale, as implemented today, and which, precisely, causes difficulties on the FCAS linked above all to the MGCS program.
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