France and UAE revive Rafale F5 cooperation after €3.5 billion dispute
France and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to resume cooperation on the Rafale F5 fighter programme, months after negotiations collapsed over financing and access to sensitive military technologies. During President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Abu Dhabi on 20 October, both countries signed a new intergovernmental agreement covering the future Rafale standard, defence industrial cooperation and technological development. For Paris, this represents an important opportunity to restore a partnership that had previously left France facing the prospect of financing the F5 programme alone.
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same France-UAE Rafale F5 talks revival and the same €3.5 billion dispute as Report 1, with no conflicting facts.
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