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Building up, moving… How France is preparing its defense industry for a war economy

Faster, higher, stronger. ” Faster, higher, stronger. » This is the Olympic motto, which in a few weeks will be heard en masse in Paris, the host city of the Games. But now this slogan is being repeated in the French defense industry so that they move into a “war economy” mode. The order comes from the very top, from the President of the Republic, Commander-in-Chief of the French Army. A speech that seems straight out of the history books…and admittedly a little scary.

At the beginning of 2024, in Cherbourg (Manche), one of the capital’s three naval bases along with Toulon (Var) and Brest (Finistère), Emmanuel Macron used his wish for the armies to remind business leaders: “France has a meeting with its defense industry , industry in war economy mode, not a slogan, no, but faster and stronger production potential. “A year and a half has passed since the head of state pulled this outdated expression out of the closet.

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Source: Le Parisien

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