There is a real risk the Stork engineering group’s aerospace division will be relocated outside the Netherlands if the next government pulls out of the JSF jet fighter project, supervisory board member Jacques Schraven says in an interview with the Financieele Dagblad.

Stork hopes to win millions of euros worth of orders in connection with the development of the plane, which is supposed to replace the Netherlands’ fleet of F-16s. But the project is one of a number which may be scrapped as the government struggles to get spending under control.
‘If the JSF programme does not go through, that means you will have to manufacture elsewhere and that the exceptional aerospace engineering faculty at Delft University will go,’ he was quoted as saying.
Stork took over much of the bankrupt Fokker plane making group in 2006. Last year, the aerospace division turned over €602m.