{"id":4231,"date":"2018-09-27T23:24:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T23:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4231"},"modified":"2018-09-27T23:24:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T23:24:04","slug":"france-to-bolster-defense-spending-by-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/09\/27\/france-to-bolster-defense-spending-by-2-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"FRANCE TO BOLSTER DEFENSE SPENDING BY $2 BILLION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/RAFALE-M.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-556\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/RAFALE-M-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/RAFALE-M-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/RAFALE-M-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/RAFALE-M-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/RAFALE-M-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/RAFALE-M-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defense News<\/p>\n<p>By Pierre Tran<\/p>\n<p>France plans to boost the 2019 defense budget by \u20ac1.7 billion to \u20ac35.9 billion (by U.S. $2 billion to $42.2 billion), up 5 percent from the present year, the Armed Forces Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>That spending increase excluded pensions and will represent 1.82 percent of gross domestic product, part of a French bid to hit a target of 2 percent of GDP by 2025, the ministry said Sept. 25. Next year will be the first year of the 2019-2025 military budget law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a major financial effort desired by the president, being adopted in the first year of the military budget law,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The increased spending was expected, as the government has formally adopted the multiyear budget law, which seeks to meet the NATO target for military spending.<\/p>\n<p>Image Sources: US Navy<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2018\/09\/26\/france-to-bolster-defense-spending-by-2-billion-heres-the-military-equipment-already-on-order\/?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=Socialflow+DFN&amp;utm_medium=social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defense News By Pierre Tran France plans to boost the 2019 defense budget by \u20ac1.7 billion to \u20ac35.9 billion (by U.S. $2 billion to $42.2 billion), up 5 percent from the present year, the Armed Forces Ministry said. That spending increase excluded pensions and will represent 1.82 percent of gross domestic product, part of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/09\/27\/france-to-bolster-defense-spending-by-2-billion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FRANCE TO BOLSTER DEFENSE SPENDING BY $2 BILLION<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4232,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions\/4232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}