Nur eine echte europäische Armee – und echte Integration – wird Europas Verteidigungsproblem lösen
https://www.ft.com/content/2445132e-7208-4a3e-a493-c565ae1ab5b5
Nur eine echte europäische Armee – und echte Integration – wird Europas Verteidigungsproblem lösen
https://www.ft.com/content/2445132e-7208-4a3e-a493-c565ae1ab5b5
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The article argues that Europe’s current defense is too fragmented and actually locks in the dependency on the US. The author argues that just throwing money at the problem is a recipe for disaster and even more fragmentation. The real fix is a fully integrated European army and a total „all-in“ on political unification as proposed by the 1952 European Defence Union. Unless Europe integrates further it will remain vulnerable and dependent on Washington. But with unification that changes diametrically. Europe has the potential to be the new superpower. Macron understands this, but German conservatives still delay. 600 million Europeans; twice the size of the US.
The EU is, at best, a golf club of states that amongst its own priorities has the banking integration, which is a very poignant topic to create a common European identity.
The problem of creating an European army is that there is no European priority in defence and in strategic objectives: for some it is Russia and for others it is the Mediterranean sea.
Hopefully, after 2027 elections in some European countries we will have a clearer idea of what is going to happen to the EU.
*In the early 1990s, when German reunification upended the European status quo, Helmut Kohl had the wisdom to insist that a unified Germany be embedded in deeper European integration. That same logic applies today.*
*If the fall of the Berlin Wall led to the Maastricht treaty and the euro, the necessary assertion of a European capacity for self-defence should open the door to EU common bonds.*
*What Europe needs far more than yet another inter-governmental solution — a “solution” that perpetuates the grotesque inefficiency of its 27 separate armies — is truly joint action. It needs a European army.*
Well said. A European Army is unavoidable.