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CEPA's Bassoli: FCAS fiasco proves European defence choices stay national

CEPA's Anna Matilde Bassoli argues FCAS's collapse, driven by a Dassault-Airbus row over an 80 percent workshare split and Franco-German rifts under Chancellor Merz, shows defence decisions remain national, not European.

Verified Opinion Abroad AI-drafted CEPA (Center for European Policy Analysis) opinion, 4 March 2026

What it does not test. This does not establish a new EU defence policy; it is Bassoli's reading of why FCAS collapsed, not an institutional decision.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. none: opinion diagnoses FCAS collapse as a national, not EU, failure. European Sovereignty Index

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

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