Macron calls for ‘reassessment’ of military spending

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday expressed his desire to “re-evaluate” France’s military spending law for the period 2019-2025 in order to “adjust funds in the face of threats” amid the war in Ukraine. “I have asked the Minister (of the Army) and the Chief of Staff to re-evaluate the military programming law in the coming weeks in light of the geopolitical context,” Macron said at the opening of the International Defense Industry and Land Security Exhibition. “Eurosatori”. He believed that France had “entered into a war economy around which I think we will eventually organize.”