Warning: Paris and Berlin, a difficult relationship A couple on the brink of divorce, some whisper. Is it really that bad? On 8 June, a fresh blow to Franco-German relations was made public, with the official end of SCAF, the European combat aircraft project intended to replace the French Rafale and the Eurofighter by 2040. Too many frictions and too much mistrust have ended up undermining the programme launched in 2017 by Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel.