For its traditional intervention in front of the armed forces, which took place, as every year, in the gardens of the Hôtel de Brienne, in Paris, on the eve of the parade of July 14, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, held, Sunday, July 13, a speech full of particular gravity. A speech widely devoted to the degradation of the geopolitical context and during which he made announcements which had been expected for many months by the military institution, devoting a new increase in the defense budget.
“We have never been so threatened since 1945”said the head of state twice before a lounge of high officers and civil servants of the Ministry of the Armed Forces. “We plunge back in years when history is done (…) Our Europe is placed on the edge of a large arc of crises (…) We, Europeans, must now ensure our security ourselves (…) »he added. But, also warned Emmanuel Macron, “To be free in this world, you have to be feared, and to be feared, you have to be powerful”.
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