{"id":3715,"date":"2026-04-08T12:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3715\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:01:06","slug":"france-aims-to-spend-e76-3b-on-defense-in-2030-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3715\/","title":{"rendered":"France aims to spend \u20ac76.3B on defense in 2030 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t foresee Paris purchasing additional warplanes or warships and prioritizes instead the significant boosting of munitions stocks. However, as <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/216048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">previously reported by POLITICO<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/215986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">text includes studies<\/a> for a new tank to replace the flagship Leclercs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Main Ground Combat System program is running about 10 years behind schedule,&#8221; Vautrin told reporters, referring to the Franco-German program to jointly develop a next-generation tank. &#8220;France needs an interim tank: The platform will come from KNDS France or KNDS Germany, that hasn&#8217;t been decided yet, and be paired with a French turret.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The updated military planning law will now go through both the houses of parliament: the National Assembly and the Senate. President Emmanuel Macron has given lawmakers until July 14 to approve the text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It doesn&#8217;t foresee Paris purchasing additional warplanes or warships and prioritizes instead the significant boosting of munitions stocks.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[735,36,5,738,799,2044,3522],"class_list":{"0":"post-3715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-defense","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-military","12":"tag-munitions","13":"tag-platforms","14":"tag-tanks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}