France 'resets' defence strategy [COMMENT]

The announcement of a crucial increase in defence spending, the presumption of the function of a framework state in 1 of the maligned NATO conflict groups in Romania, and even the intra-national discussion about the anticipation of sending Leclerc base tanks to Ukraine (not forgetting to send AMX-10RC wheeled vehicles) demonstrates emphatically that the French authorities have pressed a kind of hard restart button in defence policy. This is an crucial and above all affirmative signal for the safety of Europe as a whole, but besides Africa and the Indo-Pacific. The programming of the budget for 2024-2030 is thus a promise of Paris taking work and not just declaring its objectives in the sphere of safety and defence.