French Parliament officially approves record €413 billion ($444 billion) military budget bill for the 2024-2030 period
French Parliament officially approves record €413 billion ($444 billion) military budget bill for the 2024-2030 period
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Pensions, benefits and the likes are not included in the military planning bill like in other countries as they’re separate expenses in France and part of the general social scheme instead. So by NATO standards, the budget will actually be much higher than that. The budget for military pensions for the year 2022 was €9 billion, so an additional 70 billion minimum for such extra-expenses for that 7-year period can be added.
This also essentially means France will finally reach the 2% target (2.4%+ in fact) unless the GDP grows way more than expected in the coming years.
rare french W
Nice to see France putting their money where their mouth is.
How are they deciding on what will happen after their reelection? 😀
What a populist move :))))
“While Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s radical left-wing La France Insoumise party (LFI) and the Communist Party opposed it, two other parties of the alliance, the Greens and the Socialists, abstained.
LFI’s opposition vote came as no surprise as it had published a counter-proposal, in which it accuses the government of adopting a “Western” approach to world conflicts and calls for “an independent military policy outside NATO for peace” instead. In December 2021, LFI, a traditionally NATO-sceptic party, even presented a bill that would have France leave NATO altogether.”
Tankies try not to be brain-dead challenge
Still only one aircraft carrier sadly.
Edit : after research an amendment was voted to study the possibility of a second but the Minister of the Armed Forces doubts the possibility of financing it.
that’s about 68 Billion a year, up from the 55 a year it’s currently at.
Hahahhaha…. France controlled by ıllimunati and gun companies.
This is shameful. We need to move past having militaries.
Hmmm. European nations are rearming. Germany started it a bit earlier, now it’s France. I don’t understand what is happening. Maybe it is something about the biggest country in world who started a war in Europe and randomly throwing insults about starting a nuclear war? No way, it is impossible. (it is a sarcasm, just in case).
Atleast they know where their pensions went. In Sweden, one is just left to wonder…
Out of curiosity, has there been done any study on how much would have costed the state to not increase the pension age by two years, yearly?
The current budget is, based on another comment, around €44 billion. This would mean an year increase of around €15 billion.
Come on Starmer, we can’t let the froggies one-up us like this!