French President Emmanuel Macron announced Friday that the budget of the Armed Forces will be raised by a third between 2024 and 2030, amounting to 400 billion euros, in the face of the «multiple threats» that exist.
«Faced with the metamorphoses of war, France has and will have weapons ready to face the dangers of the century,» he said during a speech to military personnel in Mont-de-Marsan in which he addressed the future Military Programming Law, as reported by the French television channel TF1.
Thus, he indicated that these «threats» are currently «aggregating, rather than succeeding each other» and pointed to «a high intensity conflict in Europe», in reference to Ukraine, and «a crisis of multilateralism».
«There are no more peace dividends in the face of the aggression launched by Russia against Ukraine. We have before us the brutal accusations of an epochal violence,» lamented Macron, who said that «these forms of conflict have a new face that oscillates between sophistication and brutal simplicity.»
In this sense, he stressed that «it is a sophistication, with the technological situation, (…) and a brutality never seen before, particularly in Ukraine, with a return to scenes that we thought belonged to the imaginary of Verdun and the Somme», during the First World War.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
