France Faces Big Defense Spending Cut

PARIS — The French defense ministry is going to have to find up to €5 billion ($6 billion) in cost savings and non-budget revenues to keep its multi-year spending plan from unraveling. Prime Minister Francois Fillon late last month ordered a three-year freeze in public expenditures with no allowance...

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