{"id":2888,"date":"2017-12-28T23:50:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T23:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2017-12-28T23:50:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T23:50:45","slug":"french-government-promises-belgium-e20-billion-for-the-purchase-of-rafale-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/12\/28\/french-government-promises-belgium-e20-billion-for-the-purchase-of-rafale-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"FRENCH GOVERNMENT PROMISES BELGIUM \u20ac20 BILLION FOR THE PURCHASE OF RAFALE AIRCRAFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/RAFALE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1177\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/RAFALE-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/RAFALE-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/RAFALE-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/RAFALE-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/RAFALE-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/RAFALE-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/RAFALE.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : The Brussels Times<\/p>\n<p>France is offering around \u20ac20 billion in compensation if Belgium buys the Rafale aircraft from the French constructor Dassault Aviation SA (\u201cDassault\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>This is reported by De Tijd on Wednesday, based upon Dassault documents, which the daily publication has consulted.<\/p>\n<p>France has already promised a \u201cstrategic and economic\u201d partnership if the Belgian federal government chooses the Rafale aircraft, and not its competitors, the F-35 and the Eurofighter, to replace the F-16. The French government and Dassault have since then worked upon a concrete proposal, with a view to this appealing to the Belgian government.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.brusselstimes.com\/belgium\/9895\/f16-replacements-french-government-promises-belgium-20-billion-for-the-purchase-of-rafale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : The Brussels Times France is offering around \u20ac20 billion in compensation if Belgium buys the Rafale aircraft from the French constructor Dassault Aviation SA (\u201cDassault\u201d). This is reported by De Tijd on Wednesday, based upon Dassault documents, which the daily publication has consulted. France has already promised a \u201cstrategic and economic\u201d partnership if&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/12\/28\/french-government-promises-belgium-e20-billion-for-the-purchase-of-rafale-aircraft\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FRENCH GOVERNMENT PROMISES BELGIUM \u20ac20 BILLION FOR THE PURCHASE OF RAFALE AIRCRAFT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[320,1748,292],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-belgium","tag-dassault-aviation-sa","tag-rafale","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}