
Macron has proposed a significant increase in France's defense budget
To counteract contemporary dangers such as Russia's involvement in the conflict in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron has outlined extensive plans to significantly strengthen the country's armed forces. According to what he claimed, the budget for the subsequent seven years, which would begin in 2024 and end in 2030, would rise from €295 billion to €413 billion. He addressed the soldiers at the Mont-de-Marsan airbase in the southwest of France that France's military forces first neede