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Speaking to Al Jazeera about the partial collapse of the FCAS project, Giuseppe Spatafora argued it highlights the limitation of Europe's defence industrial landscape, where national needs sometimes clash with the broader goal of defence integration. However, he stressed that this setback does not affect the broader trend in Europe towards reducing dependencies on US military systems and strengthen European defence capabilities, noting that France and Germany will continue with some components of FCAS, such as its 'combat cloud' feature, which will increase Europe's cyber command-and-control capabilities.
Giuseppe argued that the FCAS cancellation should not push European countries back towards reliance on American systems, pointing out that the Trump administration's approach and the depletion of stock after the Iran war have significantly reduced the reliability of US supplies.