Defense cooperation between Paris and Berlin has been stalled for months, and the Franco-German SCAF fighter-jet project was officially abandoned in June, according to Le Monde.

The common battle-tank project MGCS has not been formally buried, but the French military already speaks of it in the past tense. Defense ministers Catherine Vautrin and Boris Pistorius were heard on November 9 at the Bundestag in Berlin at the Franco-German parliamentary assembly.