Internal German notes say:
Engagement with Arcadia must not undermine national efforts to build a sovereign data-integration platform.
Both countries want an alternative to Palantir's Maven, which NATO bought in 2025, but can't agree who leads.
Arcadia runs entirely on French defense tech — Mistral AI, Safran, Thales, Airbus.
The EU Commission rejected French requests for funding, saying it didn't qualify as a European project of common interest.
Germany is quietly building its own platform.
The pattern is familiar — the Franco-German fighter jet program already collapsed over similar disputes.
Source: Politico
