Leaders of the European Union will meet starting this Thursday, 23rd, in Cyprus, to discuss the rules that oblige the 27 member countries of the bloc to help each other in times of crisis, under the impact of threats from the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to no longer collaborate with the security of the allies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Leaders will work on “an operational plan” to make the best use of the European Union’s military, security and trade policy assets in times of need, according to Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides.
Next month, European Union envoys will take part in exercises to simulate how the bloc’s treaties can be used to provide collective assistance to a nation in the event of an attack or invasion by a hostile country such as Russia.
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Recent thinking about how Europeans could defend themselves gained momentum after Trump threatened to annex Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous part of the NATO member kingdom of Denmark.
Several European countries sent just a few soldiers each to the island off the coast of Canada, in a highly symbolic show of solidarity with Denmark. Trump shouted that he would impose tariffs on countries that participated in the mobilization, but ended up backing down. Source: Associated Press.
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