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In deciding to create the nucleus of a European army, the Nice Summit will reaffirm the creation of Europe as a major power which will ‘defend its interests throughout the world’. In this way, Europe is exposing its imperialist character, with the protection of its investments abroad, the penetration of its goods, access to raw materials and the exploitation of cheap labour. It will act in concert with the United States within NATO. But this European army will primarily serve to stabilise the immediate periphery of the European Union. The commercial annexation of the East and of North Africa can but exacerbate social inequalities, which in turn will lead to social explosions, local armed conflicts and massive displacements of populations. In the future, by coordinating its diplomatic and military forces, the European Union will try to optimise what its Member States did individually all through the last century, and all in the name of ‘maintaining’ peace and ‘humanitarian operations’.
We do not need euro-militarism. We are radically opposed to this European army as we are to NATO and to our own national army. The creation of a European military industry (EADS, Dassault, BAE) capable of checkmating the United States would in the first instance result in a dramatic increase in the military budget and a transfer of scientific and technological research to the military sector. Workers have nothing to gain and everything to lose from this ‘new’ imperial design of the European Union."@en1
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