LR advocates “European preference” in the defense industry. “Our government's investment is not up to the challenge,” regretted the head of the LR list, François-Xavier Bellamy.
Bellamy called for a tripling of the European defense fund in order to bring it to 25 billion euros. The Republican candidate called on European countries to devote 3% of their budget to defense "as quickly as possible to have a real European pillar of defense within NATO, capable of acting on its own"