Rapace
Moderator
Maybe. But actually the real “Boss†is the President. She can do her best to limit budget cuts, like her predecessor, Jean-Yves Le Drian, did (he's now the Minister of Foreign Affairs), but reaching the 2% GDP threshold is beyond her (or any other MoD's) control. Again, don't know how it is in other places, but in France, every time there's an issue with the budget execution and spendings have to be ‘trimmed’, the reflex of the bureaucrats from the Minister of Finance is always to start looking at the Defense budget. Go figure...Maybe she can fight for the 2% GDP Military Spending as agreed to in the NATO Treaty.