The Assembly has already adopted the flagship article of the bill, which brings military spending to 436 billion euros by the end of the decade, or 36 billion euros additional compared to the last programming law of 2023. This must to add nearly 13.3 billion in additional resources, coming in particular from real estate revenues or income from the army health service.
A reassessed budgetary trajectory
To justify this new trajectory barely three years later, the executive defends in particular the feedback from the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, insisting on the importance of stocks of missiles and shells, or on the preponderant place of drones. Thus, the new roadmap provides for example 8.5 billion more for munitions, for a total of 26 billion over the entire period, or two additional billion for drones, reaching 8.4 billion over the period.
If the text is adopted, it would provide for an increase in power to an annual military budget of 76.3 billion in 2030, or 2.5% of GDP. However, the path must still be validated each year in the state budget, and Parliament can therefore theoretically deviate from it. In addition, the 2027 presidential election is likely to reshuffle the cards, if only on investment priorities.
Security measures and parliamentary calendar
MPs will still have to vote on Monday on several measures contained in the text, beyond the budgetary effort. The article promising the most debate is that establishing a new “state of national security alert”. In the hands of the executive, it would notably allow several rules to be waived, whether relating to construction, expropriation or the environment, in the event of a “serious threat” to the Nation. However, part of the left is worried about the potential consequences of this new exceptional regime.
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