French army chief of staff, De Villiers, resigns over military budget.

“Je suis derrière nos soldats”, réaffirme Emmanuel Macron après la démission du chef d’état-major des armées. “I am fully behind our soldiers”, Macron re-affirms after the army chief of staff resigns (over budget allocation issues)

Le général Pierre de Villiers, chef d’état-major des armées, annonce sa démission.

Général Pierre de Villiers, army chief of staff announces his retirement.

Il avait exprimé son mécontentement face aux coupes dans le budget des armées.  He expressed his dis-satisfation in the face of army budgetary cuts. (Opinion: He’s a fool, Holland poured many extra €millions into the army during his presidency).

Le général Pierre de Villiers, chef d\'état-major des armées, après sa prise de fonction, le 17 janvier 2014.
Le général Pierre de Villiers, chef d’état-major des armées, après sa prise de fonction, le 17 janvier 2014. (JOEL SAGET / AFP). He’s held the position since 17 January 2014.

Le général François Lecointre va remplacer Pierre de Villiers. Francois Lecontre is his replacement.

Qui est le général François Lecointre, qui remplace le démissionnaire Pierre de Villiers ? Issu de l’armée de terre, héros de la guerre de Bosnie, fin connaisseur de l’Afrique.. Franceinfo dresse son portrait.

Lecointre came up through the ranks on the regular army, a hero in Bosnian war and commanded in Africa also (French Foreign Legion?)

Le général François Lecointre, le 5 mars 2013, à Bruxelles (Belgique). (GEORGES GOBET / AFP)

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Emmanuel Macron a réagi à la démission du général Pierre de Villiers du poste de chef d’état-major des armées. “Je suis derrière nos soldats”, a réaffirmé le chef de l’Etat, mercredi 19 juillet, alors qu’il était interrogé sur le sujet par France 2, en marge de sa visite sur le Tour de France.

Reacting to de Villiers resignation, Emmanuel Macron re-affirmed the “I am behind our soldiers”, when interviewed on the margins of the Alpine finish in the Tour de France.

 Le président de la République a jugé “ce n’est pas le rôle du chef d’état-major” de défendre le budget des armées, “mais celui de la ministre” des Armées, Florence Parly. Macron said “it is not the place of the chief of staff to comment on the armies budget, but it is that of the minister of defence, Florence Parly”.

Le général François Lecointre va remplacer Pierre de Villiers au poste de chef d’état-major des armées, a annoncé Christophe Castaner, porte-parole du gouvernement. Bercy a réclamé 850 millions d’euros d’économie cette année aux armées, dans un contexte global de réduction de 4,5 milliards d’euros des dépenses de l’Etat.

General Lecointre is going to replace de Villiers, the government spokesmen announced. Bercy (dept of finance) are recouping €850M from the overall budget of €4.5bN.

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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