Overview
- The government has added €36 billion to planned military investment, taking the multi‑year defence envelope to €436 billion by 2030 and setting a trajectory toward annual spending of about 2.5% of GDP.
- Parliament approved the revised programming after the Senate backed the text decisively and deputies agreed to move part of 2029–2030 spending into 2028 as a negotiated compromise.
- The bill directs new money to stockpiles of missiles and artillery, to expanded drone procurement and to strengthening domestic defence industry capacity in response to lessons from Ukraine and the Middle East.
- The law creates a new 'état d'alerte de sécurité nationale' that allows the government to derogate from environmental and urban planning rules and expands intelligence use of algorithms to track web connection data.
- Political tension persists over how to pay for the increase, the scale being labelled provisional by some ahead of the presidential transition, and the measures carry possible effects on civil liberties, local planning and defence‑industry commitments.