France Maintaining Defense Spending, Sets Meteor Purchase

PARIS — The French government aims to maintain overall defense spending in 2010 at 39.18 billion euros ($56.8 billion) — barely below this year’s budget, despite the economic crisis. Under a draft spending bill presented Sept. 30, procurement would dip slightly to 17 billion euros, from 18 billion...

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