Jacques Serais, edited by Laura Laplaud 10:03 a.m., October 27, 2022

Emmanuel Macron is going to Cher this Thursday to mobilize the arms industry.

The Head of State will be accompanied by Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of the Armed Forces, who assures us that France's military aid to Ukraine "does not endanger the country".

With this trip, the President of the Republic wishes to demonstrate the mobilization of the State in a context of war.

The day after his interview in the new program "L'Événement" on France 2 on Wednesday evening, Emmanuel Macron is going this Thursday to the Cher department, to Bourges and to La Chapelle-Saint-Ursin, for a trip dedicated to the armies and to the arms industry. 

The Head of State, accompanied by the Minister for the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, intends to demonstrate the mobilization of the State in the context of the war in Ukraine.

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If France engages in Ukraine... it could not hold a front of more than 80 km

It is a national trip with the international context in the background.

Emmanuel Macron wants to "illustrate his ambition", deciphers one of his advisers.

The Head of State has set himself the objective of adapting the French military apparatus to the new war economy.

It must be said that the figures are particularly worrying.

If the French army were to engage today in a high-intensity conflict like the war in Ukraine, it would not be able to hold a front of more than 80 kilometers.

Emmanuel Macron will shortly visit two companies that manufacture ammunition and weapons, including the famous Caesar guns supplied to Ukraine.

And to precisely compensate for the donations made to Ukraine, France has just ordered 18 new artillery systems from the Nexter gunnery in Bourges.

They must be delivered no later than the summer of 2024. This will also be Emmanuel Macron's message to manufacturers, according to his entourage: the need to "produce enough, more quickly and at controlled prices".

Quite a symbol the day after lunch with Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor, who wants his army to be the best equipped in Europe.