Paris (EFE).- French President Emmanuel Macron announced this Friday that his country’s defense budget will increase by more than a third for the 2024-2030 period, in an effort to transform the Army with a clear European dimension and prepare it for “multiple” threats.
Macron, who gave a speech at the Mont-de-Marsan air base (southwest), explained that he will ask Parliament for a budget of 400,000 million euros for the next seven years that will cover 413,000 million in needs, compared to the 295,000 million expected in the previous military programming law for 2019-2025.
“The threats are multiple and they add to each other,” he stressed before listing various scenarios of tension, such as the Eastern Mediterranean, the East China Sea and in particular the war in Ukraine, marked by “brutality”, with scenes that They were believed missing since the two world wars.