President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised a radical overhaul of foreign and defense policy, and budgetary realities and a new national debate over France's place in the world will influence the planned 'rupture' with the past.
Defense issues are expected to slip beneath the radar next week when France's Parliament begins debate on the 2008 budget bill, the first of the Sarkozy era.
While President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised a radical overhaul of defense policy, the new president's first budget actually strikes a consensual tone on military spending, which will remain stable next year, at €36.7 billion (US$52.2 billion).
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