President Macron proposed to raise defence spending from 2 % of the country’s GDP to up to 3.5%, a hike that would require an additional €30bn annually. But such a drastic increase would be a major challenge given the state of France’s strained public finances, and political divisions mean the chances of finding consensus on this are increasingly slim.
Macron’s defence spending plan drives open political divisions in France
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