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Europe and defence, Marine Tondelier

NATO: A European pillar of NATO able to act without the United States

Direction of change: change of another kind, or uncertain direction, compared with current law.

The lever. France's place in the Atlantic Alliance: maintained, withdrawal from the integrated command, exit. Direction rule: ↑ deeper integration in NATO.

« Tenir compte du pilier européen de l’OTAN, qui puisse opérer sans le concours des EtatsUnis en incluant les capacités militaires multinationales existantes (Etat major de l’Union Européenne, European Air Transport Command, Eurocorps). »1

Translation by the editorsTake account of the European pillar of NATO, which could operate without the help of the United States, by including existing multinational military capabilities (European Union Military Staff, European Air Transport Command, Eurocorps).

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Organisation of a European pillar within NATO, with no amount: nothing to cost.

Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule

Current law. France is a member of the Alliance and has been back in the integrated military command since 2009. Contribution to NATO common budgets: €203m in 2022 (of which €193m from programme 178). Cost share of 10.1023% for 2026-2027 (10.1940% from 7 March 2024 to 31 December 2025). According to the Cour des comptes, the contribution could reach about €830m in 2030 in 2022 euros (€770m for the military and investment budgets, €63m for the civil budget). The common budgets of all Allies amount to about €4.6bn in 2025.

Horizon. Full year 2030-2032. The Cour des comptes costs in 2022 euros; the top of the range is uprated at about 2% inflation per year.

Limits. Only the direct contribution is costed. Leaving NATO would not reduce the national defence target and could increase it (loss of pooling, of collective protection, of intelligence): not to be shown as a net saving. Low: 2022 level (0.2). Central: the Cour's estimate for 2030 (0.83, 2022 euros). High: 0.83 uprated for inflation (~1.0), editors' calculation. The Cour stresses the opacity of budget documents on this contribution. Leaving the integrated command alone has no source for a costing: not costed. Leaving the integrated command alone: no recent official source costs its budgetary effect.

  • Cour des comptes, « La participation de la France à l'OTAN : une contribution croissante » (S2023-0770), 2023-07: « « Pour la France, le financement des budgets militaires et d'investissement par le programme budgétaire 178 pourrait atteindre 770 M€ en 2030 et celui du budget civil par le programme budgétaire 105 un montant de 63 M€ en 2030. Ces chiffres exprimés en euros 2022 ne prennent pas en compte l'inflation à venir. » ; « la contribution financée par le programme 178 pourrait passer de 193 M€ en 2022 à environ 770 M€ en 2030 » »
  • OTAN, « Funding NATO » (page et tableau des quotes-parts), 2026-04-08: « These funds (around EUR 4.6 billion for 2025, and up to EUR 5.3 billion for 2026) enable NATO to deliver capabilities […] [tableau des quotes-parts, Cost share « at 32 », valid from 1 January 2026 until 31 December 2027] France 10.1023 »

How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.

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  1. Pour une prospérité écologique, programme des Écologistes, p. 195. Open the document at this page.

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