europeanspaceflight.com/french-mps-propose-symbolic-e1-budget-line-for-vortex-spaceplane French MPs propose symbolic €1 budget line for VORTEX spaceplane
Seventy-one French MPs want to give Dassault's VORTEX spaceplane exactly €1 in the 2027 budget, moved from an existing defence support programme. The token sum is a tactic to force the government to explain how it will pay for the project and how much Germany is involved, given the collapse of the Franco-German SCAF fighter programme in June 2026.
— via European Spaceflight, Andrew Parsonson
