France will reach NATO’s target of spending 2 percent of GDP on defense this ... The official added that the budget problems could undermine relations with defense contractors. “If the state ...

President Emmanuel Macron wants to build up French defence spending as Washington threatens to pull its European security guarantee, but funding those plans as his government struggles to tame an ...

But this announcement marks a turning point. This spending review looks to be far more significant than any we have seen for ...

In France, super-rich ... make more efforts [to increase defence budgets]," warned Lombard, but he promised that this would ...

To secure their countries in uncertain times, governments around the globe are set to increase defence budgets to a size that ...

A budget-constrained France could launch a national loan to fund plans to beef up its defence spending, Prime Minister Francois Bayrou and Finance Minister Eric Lombard said on Friday. European ...

About 45% of the show will be dedicated to defense and security, a “strong increase” from the previous event in 2023, the ...

However, with French budgets already stretched, the government faces significant challenges in funding these defence ambitions. European Central Bank (ECB) member Francois Villeroy de Galhau said ...

France is set to issue a survival manual to households ... saying the country should increase defence spending to 3-3.5 per cent of economic output from the current 2 per cent.