France boosts military spending amid war in Ukraine
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FILE - A French serviceman stands on a Leclerc main battle tank during a joint French US exercise involving HIMARS and MLRP rocket launchers and at a firing range in Capu Midia, on the Black Sea shore, Romania, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. U.S. and French troops that are part of a NATO battlegroup in Romania held a military exercise. The French government approved on Tuesday April 4, 2023 in Cabinet meeting a key budget bill presented as the biggest military spending effort for France since the 1960s and meant to take into account the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)FILE - French serviceman operate a mortar during a joint French US exercise involving HIMARS and MLRP rocket launchers at a firing range in Capu Midia, on the Black Sea shore, Romania, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 as U.S. and French troops are part of a NATO battlegroup in Romania holding a military exercise. The French government approved on Tuesday April 4, 2023 in Cabinet meeting a key budget bill presented as the biggest military spending effort for France since the 1960s and meant to take into account the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu visit the Eurosatory land and airland defense and security trade fair, at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre in Villepinte, north of Paris, Monday, June 13, 2022. The French government approved on Tuesday April 4, 2023 in Cabinet meeting a key budget bill presented as the biggest military spending effort for France since the 1960s and meant to take into account the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP, File)
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FILE - A French serviceman stands on a Leclerc main battle tank during a joint French US exercise involving HIMARS and MLRP rocket launchers and at a firing range in Capu Midia, on the Black Sea shore, Romania, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. U.S. and French troops that are part of a NATO battlegroup in Romania held a military exercise. The French government approved on Tuesday April 4, 2023 in Cabinet meeting a key budget bill presented as the biggest military spending effort for France since the 1960s and meant to take into account the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)
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