Even if Russia were a direct threat to French national security, what good would an aircraft carrier do? F rench President ...

Mr. Barnier told the Agence France-Presse news agency that the ... After Russia invaded Ukraine, he substantially increased military spending to deal with the threat. All that spending seemed ...

By Elizabeth Howcroft, Supantha Mukherjee and Michael Kahn PARIS/STOCKHOLM/PRAGUE (Reuters) -As venture capital investors ...

To secure their countries in uncertain times, governments around the globe are set to increase defence budgets to a size that ...

Much like the EU's 17th package that was adopted on May 20, the new measures include blacklisting more individuals and targeting the Russian shadow fleet. On the latter, the EU has targeted more than ...

Two problems immediately arise ... True, France is too close to Communist China. True, France has skimped on defense spending for too long, preferring to lecture America with Gaullist arrogance.

While there is a growing consensus that new military spending ... than from Germany or France — duplicating efforts across the bloc. Europe already has some redundancy problems in defense.

France is trying to shut out British arms firms from the EU’s defence industrial programme despite the post-Brexit reset.

France like many other EU countries has increased military spending in the face of Russian ... France has made a timely decision to issue survival manuals to its residents. The 20-page manual ...

April 5, 2025: Global defense spending reached $2.46 trillion in 2024 ... equipment shortages, maintenance issues and generally low readiness level. France was better off, at $41.2 billion, or 1.5 ...

He also told Gamble that although France would increase defence spending, it would do so by ... re talking about every week together on various issues. And that’s great, because even if Great ...

Johansson told BI that Sweden's boost in defense spending to 3.5% of GDP would still take "a couple of years" before it ...