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Chief of Staff of Armies:" two years "before feeling the effects of a budget increase ©
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/ CHARLES PLATIAU
French troops will have to wait "two years" before seeing the tangible effects of the increase in the military budget provided by the new Military Programming Law (LPM), warned Thursday their chief of staff , General François Lecointre
"We create the wait by these announcements", but "our troops will not see the color right now", he explained to the microphone of RTL. [19659003] "I think it will take two years before our soldiers, in the reconstruction of their infrastructure, in the arrival of new equipment, can measure concretely the effort that will be made by the Nation", after years of under -Financing, he continued.
"Our soldiers live from two Programming Laws at least the decrease of the resources devoted to them, and the progressive decay of the French defense system and our armies", a- he stressed
President Emmanuel Ma cron will sign Friday the promulgation of LPM 2019-2025, which plans to increase the defense budget by 1.7 billion euros per year until 2022, then 3 billion per year from 2023. [19659003Theexecutivealsolaunchedlastyearaplantoimprovethemilitaryconditionwithmeasuresinfavoroffamiliesrepresenting300millioneurosoverfiveyears
Now this "family plan", providing for additional crèche places, increased badistance to the families of the wounded or the extension of social benefits during the missions of a military spouse, will "produce faster effects", "in the current year", argued General Lecointre, two days before the military parade on July 14.
12/07/2018 08:58:13 –
Paris (AFP) –
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