Macron Asks French Defence Ministry to Revise Military Spending Until 2025

PARIS (Sputnik) - French President Emmanuel Macron has asked the Ministry of Armed Forces to review the Military Programming Law 2019-2025 (LPM) as France needs its economy levelled with the geopolitical situation amid the Ukraine crisis.
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"I instructed the [defence] minister and the chief of general staff of the French armed forces to review the Military Programming Law 2019-2025 in light of the geopolitical events," Macron said at the opening of the biennial Paris-hosted arms fair Eurosatory.
France has "entered a war economy," Macron said.
The LPM sets France's defence spending for the designated period at 295 billion euros ($308 billion) with an ultimate aim of increasing expenditures to 2% of GDP, which is the NATO standard.
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