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The French president Emmanuel Macron promised to increase military spending at € 6.5bn over the next two years, saying the effort to deal with threats, including Russia.
In a speech of military officers on the Eve Day in Bastille, Macron argues that France has ways to heal defense, despite pressing it Public financially discouraged.
Macron explained that the 2026 defense budget is raised at € 3.5bn, and another € 3bn of 2027. This will represent a total of $ 1126 and 2027 tied together.
“This new historical (spending) proportion, reliable and necessary,” said Macron on Sunday. “This is required.”
“Since 1945, freedom has not been threatened, and is not serious,” the French president said about the usual military and cyber threat facing Europe. “To be free from this world, we must be feared. Fear, we must be powerful.”
The defense looks only one place to get more resources when Prime Minister François Bayrou A plan is revealed for 2026 budgets on Tuesday.
To begin with narrow large disabilities, the government is working in a fiscal package like a taxpayer of tax, and warns the public that everyone needs to contribute to the effort. Without a working majority of Parliament, the Government of the Bayrou remains weaker budget.
But most opposition parties support a higher defense spending in recent years and hope to do it again.
European countries are forced from President Donald Trump to make further to ensure their own security, which leads to a landmarking agreement with defensive expenditure of 3.5 percent of GDP.
This represents a large increase from target history 2 percent, part of the three-quarter of 32 members of NATO now meet, including France.
It’s hard for Paris To answer the new purpose of NATO provided public finances, according to lawmakers and analyzes.
Macron argues that the EU should board a joint borrow to develop regional defenses, but other states of the member, including Germany, remain against it.
However, Germany begins with a great wave of defense spending that it spends getting more debt.
Berlin has a space to do this given that GDP debt ratio stands at 62.5 percent at the end of 2024, according to Eurostat, while only France is, only behind Greece and Italy.
Since the macron was first selected in 2017, he made it a priority to rebuild the military after decades of cuts after the Cold War. France passed successful Multiiyeare military budgets trying to heal its damaging forces and double the defense budget from the 2017 levels of 2030.
French leader said that newly informed spending spending means that the defense budget can double to reach € 64bn at the end of 2027, his last year of office.
France has one of European’s most powerful armies with many capabilities, including nuclear weapons that can be carried in submarines and the jets of the fighter. Nuclear capacity accounts for about 13 percent of the total equipment budget. It also keeps a carrier on the plane and has almost 200,000 personnel.
