Macron announces acceleration of army budget increase: who will pay?

Who will pay for the defense budget? Thomas Gassilloud, a Renaissance MP from the Rhône region and member of the National Assembly's Defense Committee, defended the President's announcements on Monday, July 14, accelerating national defense investments. The army budget was supposed to double between 2017 and 2030, but this will be accelerated by 2027.

"There will be new funding sources: private financing, Europe, and savings. These are the three levers that will allow us to find this money," the MP explained on RMC this morning.

"It is work that must allow us to finance our security model and our social model," he judges, believing that the effort will be required "from every French person."

So it will be a bit of everyone. For Emmanuel Macron, "more activity and production" will be needed to finance this effort. François Bayrou will detail these measures starting Tuesday.

In detail: Retirees' pensions could be frozen, as could social security benefits. A more sensitive issue: some public holidays could be worked.

Large companies and those with very high net worth should also be subject to the tax; an exceptional surcharge to ensure that the efforts are fair is currently under consideration.

On the economic front, public policies are also in François Bayrou's sights: less compensation for the unemployed and less care for certain chronically ill people.

"The potion will be bitter," we were recently told by the Élysée Palace. "It's make or break," the same source confided. For the moment, it's still radio silence at Matignon, a vigil for the Prime Minister, who is expected shortly on the Champs-Elysées to attend his first and perhaps last Bastille Day parade.