Emmanuel Macron announced Sunday that he wanted to strengthen the planned budget effort, adding expenses of 3.5 billion euros in 2026 and then, again 3 billion more in 2027, so the defense budget will have doubled in ten years under its two terms.
“An update of the Military Programming Law” by 2024-2030 “will be presented in autumn, said the Head of State in his traditional speech with the armies on the eve of the National Holidays. He said” rejected “that this” new and historical effort “is funded by the” debt “, at the time the government must give a clear trip to try to reachment public accounts.
President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that “freedom had never been so threatened” since the end of World War II in 1945 and that “peace never in our continent had depended on our current decisions.”
“We would be overwhelmed”
“We are living in a moment of rocks. We have seen imminence for a long time. These tilis are today effective,” said the French head of state in his traditional army speech on the eve of the national era.
“No one can remain motionless. We have an advance, but tomorrow, at the same rate, we would be overwhelmed,” said the president, asking parliamentarians to vote for the budget for the year 2026 when they reach the assembly, “because the final sanctions have a simple consequence: they change the budget of the armies.”
Source: BFM TV
