President Emmanuel Macron announced that 400 billion euros ($433.16 billion) would be assigned to France’s military budget in 2024-2030, up from 295 billion euros in 2019-2025, in a speech to France’s armed forces on Friday. He said the budget boost was meant to start building capacities back up after chronic underinvestment in the previous decades.
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