PARIS: France is bound to overshoot its European Union budget deficit target as it boosts security spending in the wake of the November 13 Paris attacks, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Tuesday.

The deficit target will "necessarily be exceeded" as France amends budget plans to hire 10,000 more police and gendarmes and boost their resources, Valls told France Inter radio.

"The European Commission must understand," Valls said, that the struggle against Islamic State militants "concerns France but also concerns Europe".