Military Programming: Senate Removes Army Budget Extension, Sébastien Lecornu Calls on Parliament to "Find a Solution"
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When considering the military programming bill, the Senate removed a flagship article with 36 billion euros of additional spending by 2030. "There needs to be a path that is sustainable. The real problem at the time we speak is that there is no more trajectory in the text," the Prime Minister expressed concern. "The Prime Minister calls on Parliament to "find a solution." - Military programming: the Senate removes a budget extension, Lecornu cal…
Despite a shared analysis of the threats facing France, the senatorial majority called for an increase of EUR 50 billion that was considered impossible to finance by the minister of armies, Catherine Vautrin. In response, Senators LR rejected the article that organized the budget trajectory.
The Senate Right said it wanted to acknowledge a "deep disagreement" with the government after failing to obtain an additional EUR 14 billion for the Defence, and therefore decided to vote against it.
The Senate rejected, on the night of Tuesday, June 2, the flagship article of the bill, which provided for €36 billion in increased military spending by 2030 after the executive had reversed the $50 billion increase demanded by the Republicans.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu admitted to facing a "real problem" after an unexpected vote in the Senate, which abolished an extension of the budget allocated to the armies by 2030, calling on parliamentarians to "tru...
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