France’s Macron’s defense spend boost
French President Emmanuel Macron came to make a speech to the leaders of L’ôtel de Brynene in Paris at the annual Bastille Day parade in the French capital on July 13, 2025.
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On Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron warned a significant increase in defense expenditures over the next few years and the wider threats of France and wider Europe.
″ Since 1945, freedom has never been so threatened and never taken so seriously, Mac Macron said to the leaders of the armed forces on the eve of the Bastille Day.
″ You must be afraid to be free in this world. You must be strong to be afraid, “he said. In the comments published by Elysee Palace. Macron, Ukraine ongoing war, cyber crime and terrorism, national and European freedom as a threat to the freedom.
Macron wanted to raise an upgrade of 3.5 billion euros ($ 4.09 billion) and 3 billion in 2027 next year. This would receive the total amount spent for security that year up to 64 billion euros – twice the defense budget of the French Armed Forces in 2017, when Macron was the first time.
French deputies should approve the increases before entering into force. The French Parliament, the National Assembly, at the end of last year, lasted months on the debates that led to the collapse of a previous government, wider 2025 national budget and cost savings.
France is trying to restrain the stretching budget deficit, Reached 5.8% in 2024During this period, with the public debt of 113% of the gross domestic product..
Macron said more details about plans will be announced on Tuesday when Prime Minister Francois Bayrou made an update about the 2026 budget. At that time, more “bitch squeezing” measures or tax hikes that will not be popular may occur.
On Sunday, Macron called on his citizens to work for greater goodness.
“Nation needs you, Mac Macron said,” Every French man and woman should be cognitive, “we all need to sacrifice. There is a price tag of freedom.”
This price tag can be too high to accept the deputies, especially those on the left, who are already scary against expenditure cuts. The government needs to be saved to reduce the budget deficit that 5.4% this year. and 4.6% in 2026.
Finance Minister Eric Lombard implies that in April, reaching its target of 2026 in April, 40 billion euros (46 billion dollars) value should be savings.
Lombard, in his statement to BFM TV, “I adhere to the target of 4.6% for 2026, which will require an extra and very important effort worth 40 billion euros.” In the comments translated by Reuters.
“We are in an extraordinary state of our budget.”
