François Picard is pleased to welcome Ulrike Franke, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. According to Franke, the project's demise was "not a surprise to anybody." While acknowledging that Dassault was often perceived as "quite difficult to deal with," she argues that the deeper problem lay in a structural design flaw that brought together industrial rivals who "never really had the incentive to properly work together."

La bataille d'égo entre Dassault et Airbus a conduit à la fin du projet d'un avion de combat européen. Emmanuel Macron et son homologue allemand Friedrich Merz ont regretté "l'impossibilité pour les industriels de s'entendre sur la continuation de ce projet" initié en 2017 qui devait permettre à l'Europe de se doter d'avions de combat de sixième génération.