Far-right lawmakers want to strengthen the air force with 20 more Rafale fighter jets, the navy with three more frigates and 10 more carrier-based Rafales. The party’s lawmakers are also keen to make land forces stronger and boost France\u2019s space capabilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The party did not, however, spell out how it would pay for the extra defense spending; the government is eyeing spending cuts to bring its budget deficit under control.<\/p>\n
One party official close to Bardella said the money would come from “lowering public spending.\u201d A National Rally lawmaker said potential savings include immigration policy, state agencies, the French contribution to the EU budget and healthcare for undocumented migrants.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another challenge is that most of the party’s amendments were rejected by other political groups. It doesn’t have a majority in parliament, so it would have to cobble together a coalition even if its candidate wins next year’s presidential vote. That might make it harder for the far-right party to undertake an immediate shift from Macron’s policies.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The next parliamentary election is in theory scheduled for 2029, but the next president is widely expected to call a snap election next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No EU defense spending<\/p>\n
National Rally wants European arms-buying preferences to be replaced<\/a> by those that favor France, including<\/a> for early-warning systems, deep strike capabilities, air defense and space. Overall, far-right lawmakers said they wanted to scrap many European projects<\/a> such as the European Long-Strike Approach on deep-strike capabilities, the European Patrol Corvette program, the FCAS jet and the MGCS tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Far-right lawmakers want to strengthen the air force with 20 more Rafale fighter jets, the navy with three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[2970,8969,18,1597,2309,168,2261,424,425,115,3715,172,175,1934,8970,8971,427,8972,942,4137,943],"class_list":["post-13136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-air-defense","tag-armaments","tag-brussels","tag-defense","tag-defense-budgets","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-eu-budget","tag-european-defense","tag-european-defense-policy","tag-france","tag-french-politics","tag-germany","tag-industry","tag-jordan-bardella","tag-marine-le-pen","tag-mgcs","tag-military","tag-munitions","tag-space","tag-tanks","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116476722055778655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}