French President Emmanuel Macron has called on his country’s defence industry to permanently increase arms production in light of the war in Ukraine. “We need to prepare ourselves permanently for a geopolitical and geostrategic change in which the defence industry will play a growing role,” Macron said on Thursday at the laying of the foundation stone for a new explosive powder factory for the company Eurenco in the south-western city of Bergerac. A war economy is needed to be able to supply Ukraine with weapons to repel the Russian invasion and also for its own defence, he said. This dynamic …