Emmanuel Macron He must work in order to increase France’s military expenses. This Sunday, President of Gallica announced that the country’s military expenses will gradually increase over the next two years to 64,000 million euros.
Taking advantage of his speech before the nation on the eve of the National Day of France (tomorrow, July 14), the president of the French confirmed that Military expenses will be increased At 3.5 billion euros in the budget for 2026, and it will be another 3,000 million in 2027.
“The new budget for our armed forces is necessary. We consciously assume this new and historical effortWe planned to duplicate the budget (defense) by 2030, but by 2027 we will double it, ”Macron said in his speech.
With this double increase, the French will reach military spending in the amount of 64,000 million in two years, which These will be double investments in defense of what was carried out in 2017, in the year when Macron arrived at Gala PresidentialThe fact that he revealed in intervention.
“The world of our continent did not depend so much on our current decisions,” Macron warned and justified. Despite the announcement in his speech, he did not describe in detail how the money will be distributed and He placed autumn citizens when the update of the military development plan is presentedField
Macron raised his efforts to “introduce innovations faster, produce faster, produce new volumes and adapt to the requirement“ always, referring to “correct our weak points” and mentioned, in particular, to achieve “even more drones” or “reinforce our anti -air protection”. “We have strong armies, but we must strengthen the model and increase the mass,” he emphasized.
The French President said that the increase in expenses will not be funded by debt, since it was confirmed by its obligation to reduce the deficit of the country.
However, this is an increase in protection He still leaves France from obligations agreed in NATO to reach 5% of GDP National, although it became the first European country to transferred the file after the meeting a few weeks ago.