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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

PARIS (Reuters) - 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 ...

PARIS - 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.

If the increase in defence spending to 3% of GDP or more is not offset by more stringent budgetary efforts and/or burden sharing at the EU level, France’s budget deficit is likely to exceed 4% ...