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First round of French legislative elections takes place on 30 June.

What do the parties actually say on security and defence, Ukraine, and in general foreign policy? Now that they all have published their programmes, here's a short overview (Ensemble, RN, Front Populaire): 🧵🇫🇷

In general, security and defence are clearly not the central topics of this electoral campaign. Instead, parties focus on questions related to social security, work, salaries, cost of living, and immigration. The exact ideas on Europe were laid out in the EU election programmes.

Programme by Ensemble (Macron's Renaissance party and allies) on defence (1/2):
- commitment to stay in NATO and maintain nuclear deterrence (that's explicit because it is not the case for other parties); explicitly underlines that this is a "guarantee of our nation"

Programme by Ensemble (Macron's Renaissance party and allies) on defence (2/2):
- keeping the military planning law as agreed, and doubling the French defence budget by 2030

Link to the programme: doc.ensemble-2024.fr/programme-legi…

Programme of Rassemblement National (RN) on defence (1/2):
- preserving sovereignty of French nuclear deterrence [note: this is not questioned at the moment]
- guarantee the model of a "complete army"
- maintaining overall budget trajectory of military planning law

Programme of Rassemblement National (RN) on defence (2/2):
- no transfer of competences to the EU in security and defence
-give preference to weapons sells to other European states
- war in Ukraine as "threat to our collective security"

Link: rassemblementnational.fr/documents/2024…

Programme of Front Populaire on defence (1/3):
- "unfailingly" defend Ukraine "to make Putin's war of aggression fail"
- support: weapons delivery, foreign debt cancellation, seizing RUS assets in line with intl law, blue helmets to protect nuclear power plants

Programme of Front Populaire on defence (2/3):
- only programme with details on Gaza
- no further support for Netanyahu gov in Israel
- support ICC in cases against Hamas and Netanyahu
- immediately recognise Palestine
- embargo on weapons deliveries to Israel

Programme of Front Populaire on defence (3/3):
- act for liberation of hostages
- sanctions against far-right gov of Netanyahu
- call for suspension of EU-Israel association agreement
- allow organisation of elections in Palestine
- ensure respect of sovereignty of Lebanon

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