“If Germany and France can align on their defence priorities, this creates a momentum for the whole EU.”
Bertrand de Cordoue is a Senior Fellow at the Institut Jaques Delors and former Director of Research and Technology at the European Defence Agency and Director of Defence and Space at the Airbus Public Affairs department. In this interview, he shares his assesment on German-French cooperation in driving European defense efforts, the difficulties of activating private funds for defense expenses and the future of FCAS, the German-French-Spanish program for a Future Combat Air System.
Our team interviewed Bertrand de Cordoue at the edges of our joint conference with ODDO in Paris. Learn more about the conference here.