{"id":256251,"date":"2025-07-11T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256251\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:15:09","slug":"france-warns-of-extremely-worrying-russian-activity-underwater-and-in-space-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/256251\/","title":{"rendered":"France warns of \u2018extremely worrying\u2019 Russian activity underwater and in space \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the first press conference held by the French chief of the defense staff since 2021, Burkhard aimed to outline the threats currently facing France ahead of a speech Sunday on defense by President Emmanuel Macron, which is expected to include major announcements.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Russia, Burkhard also highlighted how tensions in other parts of the world \u2014 including the Middle East \u2014 are adding to an already demanding situation for French troops. He stressed that \u201cunbridled use of force\u201d and \u201cgetting used to violence\u201d had become defining elements of the global landscape.<\/p>\n<p>While avoiding a direct call for increased military spending, Burkhard said that finding the best way to confront these challenges \u201cprobably comes at a cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>France is looking to increase its military budget to \u20ac67.4 billion by 2030, from \u20ac50.5 billion for this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the first press conference held by the French chief of the defense staff since 2021, Burkhard aimed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[1194,473,34,36,17104,2597,332,2823,413,42660],"class_list":{"0":"post-256251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-french-eu-presidency","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-satellites","16":"tag-space","17":"tag-submarines"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114834789067053200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}