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Terrorism, hybrid threats and cyber- & energy insecurity leave EU countries no choice but to step up their security and defence cooperation efforts, thus paving the way to a European Defence Union. MEPs suggest: *devoting 2% of each country’s GDP to defence *establishing multinational forces and EU headquarters to plan & command crisis management operations *enabling the EU to act where NATO is unwilling to do so (Editor: Who would decide when urgent action should be taken – the EC, EP or the Council of Ministers and who would pay the ‘bill’ for nations providing resources for that action, while others ‘stay at home’? As a past NATO Review article says; “The numbers speak for themselves. Some 25% of NATO members do not have an air force, 30% have no naval force or maintain a navy with less than 600 sailors, and 50% are fielding an active army of less than 20,000 soldiers”. Would it be the president of the EC, Mr Junker, who comes from Luxembourg, which apparently spends less than 0.5% of GDP per year on defence? Hardly an inspiring military leader in the mould of Winston Churchill, or Dwight D. Eisenhower! |
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Defence: MEPs push for more EU cooperation to better protect Europe Defence Secretary reviews NATO’s reassurance role with Secretary General 10DS: PM meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: 23 November 2016 Defence Expenditures of NATO Countries PC&PE: "Woefully low" total of Navy escort vessels could shrink still further |
