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"Mr President, we are used to the EU using the crisis as a pretext for greater integration of Member States’ economies: it is now being used as a pretext for pooling defence industries and capabilities. Apparently, surrender of the ability to take independent action is a panacea for all ills.
Sovereign states that lose their own capabilities and defence industries cease to be sovereign. Supranational bodies that gain a capacity to wage war without the express consent of member countries become, by stealth, sovereign states. But of course that is the idea.
The report seems to look back at previous involvement in conflicts with a degree of nostalgia and bemoans the fact that the EU does not have a clear common security and defence policy. It refers with approval to the 2008 European Council meeting at which the objective was set to be capable of deploying a force of 60 000 in 60 days. I am afraid I cannot be sanguine about the possibility of a trigger-happy EU deploying an army of that size.
Alliances such as the EU mutual defence clause have the potential for transforming a localised conflict into a world war. If we doubt it, think of 1914."@en1
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