French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that billions of euros of taxpayers’ money spent on Europe’s military budget will not be used to buy American weapons. US President Donald Trump complained in a speech minutes before his inauguration that European citizens do not pay enough for their own defense. Emmanuel Macron said that the continent of Europe should spend more, but he said in a New Year’s address to top military officials that we cannot increase Europe’s debt, we cannot spend more on our defense to subsidize the industry, wealth and jobs of other continents. When we say let’s spend more on our forces, in many countries it means buying more American equipment. France, which has a large defense industry, often complains that other EU members have chosen to buy American weapons despite the existence of French or European alternatives. French Prime Minister Francois Barrow has said that if France and Europe do nothing to counter Donald Trump’s policies, the US will The threat of domination, crushing and marginalization will persist, François Bérou said in the southwestern city of Pau, pointing to the incoming administration’s policies on the dollar, industry and investment, saying that with the inauguration of the president, the United States has decided on a policy that is incredibly dominant.
The French president said that if we do nothing, our fate will be simple, we will be dominated, we will be crushed, we will be marginalized, it depends on us (France and European countries), because it is impossible without Europe. In response to US President Donald Trump’s recent call for increased defense spending, Germany has met NATO’s target of spending 2 percent of its gross domestic product on defense by 2024. Under the left-wing government of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Germany has increased military spending since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but Germany, Europe’s largest economy, is facing a budget shortfall, which has created the possibility of more long-term military funding.