{"id":11842,"date":"2025-12-21T17:02:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/macron-on-uae-visit-announces-new-french-aircraft-carrier\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T17:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:02:59","slug":"macron-on-uae-visit-announces-new-french-aircraft-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/macron-on-uae-visit-announces-new-french-aircraft-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron, on UAE visit, announces new French aircraft carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday he had given the official go-ahead to replace his country&#8217;s flagship, the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n<p>That vessel, the only nuclear-powered carrier outside the US Navy, entered service in 2001 following more than a decade of construction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In line with the last two military programming laws, and after a thorough and comprehensive review, I have decided to equip France with a new aircraft carrier,&#8221; Macron said, speaking during a visit to French troops in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to give the final go-ahead was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2025\/12\/macron-uae-visit-announces-new-french-aircraft-carrier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday he had given the official go-ahead to replace his country&#8217;s flagship, the nuclear-powered Charles de&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3459,3511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-moyen-orient"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}