During Volodymyr Zelensky's official visit to Paris on February 16, the French president and his Ukrainian counterpart signed a bilateral civil and military support agreement.
In this text, France undertakes to provide
“up to 3 billion euros” of
“additional”
military aid
to Kiev in 2024, after support which it estimates at 1.7 billion in 2022 and 2, 1 billion in 2023. The scale of this aid, at a time when Bercy has just decreed a savings plan of 10 billion on the state budget, is raising questions and criticism in the ranks of the opposition.
On the left, PS MP Boris Vallaud, for example, welcomed this aid going
“in the right direction”
but on condition that these funds
“are not charged to the military programming law (LPM) – that is say about our own capabilities.
This law, passed last summer, provides for a budget of 413 billion euros over seven years in order to
“modernize”
the French armies.
In the majority, it is indicated that indeed
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