Environmentalists are dampening the drive to increase military spending. The federal partners are irritated.
In the negotiations which slow down the government, one often evokes the left-right divide and the impossible agreement between blues and reds.
But another dividing line is expressed in the Council of Ministers and through the media. Between the green branch and the blue branch, we are torn, on nuclear power of course, but now also on armaments. Monday evening, in kern, the Prime Minister returned to the part of the budget which must be dedicated to Defence. The discussion opened on the conditions under which an increase in military investments might be considered and each party was able to defend its positions. As expected, no decision has been taken and the subject will come back to the table of the Council of Ministers next week.
