There is a new war in the world and Europe is slipping again. And this is not what this editor says, but nothing more and nothing less than the European Commissioner for Defence, Andrius Kubilius.
This veteran Lithuanian politician and physicist does not hesitate to affirm that “Europe only moves when a crisis hits it: we have “… although there has been a lot of informational noise.
Yet, Kubilius ve ‘brotes verdes’as he explains in an interview in Daily Mirror. Although he admits that “we still lack a forum where important strategic ideas can be debated, agreed and implemented”, he celebrates that “some signs of progress are already visible” in the form of an “institutional reflection” that has already begun. Reference the European Security Council“composed of permanent and rotating members, such as proposed by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron ten years ago.”
There are several keys to strategic military self-sufficiency that marks this high position of the Commission. But many of them go through reduce dependence on the US in favor of production and management more typical of the EU. Included on the Brussels table.
“And european army would be an important consequence of a possible reduction of the US military presence,” he admits, aware that “currently, the US provides the rapid reaction force in Europe andor we can just replace it with 27 mini national armies“Thus, it marks an obligation to advance the debate on how to “create a deployable European rapid reaction force.” “By the way, the majority of citizens of many EU countries also want it,” he adds in the interview.
It is based on a recent survey carried out by the French company Cluster17. In it, he states, it is stated that “about 70% […] in Germany, Belgium and Spain they indicated that They prefer a European defenseincluding a European army.”
“This reveals two things: people know that collective security is necessary and wants Europe to be much more independent in this sense and not depend exclusively on the United States,” concludes Andrius Kubilius.
