The Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu was the guest of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews. At the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk, he returned to the next budget of the Armed Forces. A budget barely sufficient “to ensure our security needs”, he assures.
After the censorship of Michel Barnier's government and the new government's announcement of wanting to make 50 billion euros in savings on this year's budget, will the Ministry of the Armed Forces also have to tighten its belt? Currently, the military programming for the years between 2024 and 2030 provides for an upward trajectory each year, with the objective of nearly 70 billion euros in budget within five years (compared to around forty billion in 2024, editor's note).
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Despite the censorship and then the change of government against a backdrop of public deficit, the budget of the Ministry of the Armed Forces will be on the rise in 2025, assures Sébastien Lecornu. “It was already protected in the copy that Michel Barnier stopped. And François Bayrou decided to start again from Michel Barnier's copy,” he explains on the set of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews.
A milestone
“But in any case, the Army budget in 2025 is not a ceiling, it is a floor. We will arrive at 50.5 billion euros for 2025. It is just enough to respond to our security needs, he insists to Sonia Mabrouk.
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“We were at 31 billion euros in 2017, we will arrive at around 69 billion euros in 2030, and the milestone is in 2025, at 50.5 billion euros. Because the modernization of deterrence “nuclear requires means because the unprecedented modernization of our army since the end of the Cold War requires means”, he insists, concluding also that the money invested in. the Army helped create jobs across the country.
