EUROPEAN INTERVENTION INITIATIVE VS COMMON EUROPEAN ARMY

Neno Hristov

doi:10.18769/ijasos.477612

Abstract

European Intervention Initiative is different from the EU initiative on Permanent Structured Cooperation in the Field of Defense (PESCO) and the idea of creating a common European army. Undertaking additional commitments jeopardizes the implementation of strategic priorities for the countries and further exacerbates the fragile and insufficient military budgets

Highlights

Thinking as a businessman, Trump wants to stop Nord Stream-2 in order to take control of the European energy market and ensure the supply of liquefied gas
It is understandable that the EU countries, focusing on their own projects and reducing the purchase of US arms, are concerned by the EU's ongoing Permanent Structured Co-operation and Defense Industry Fund
All this has led to the vote of the Declaration of the Summit, in which a significant place is devoted to Russia, to which many accusations have been made and a definite critique of the Crimea has been expressed

Summary

THE MAIN TEXT

Europe behaves as if it has not yet realized that US behavior towards it is related to new American views in commercial policy and to security philosophy. The project comes as a result of the need for a new approach due to the fact that the EU can not meet its defense ambitions and its commitments to increase military capabilities Being ashamed of their collective inability to prevent Serbian ethnic cleansing in Kosovo without US aid, the European leaders in 1999 at the Helsinki European Council set a goal to build a fully capable army of 60,000 by 2003. With a careful reading of the non-pepper of this new initiative, it is clear that it develops entirely outside the framework of the European Union's common security and defense policy. A number of European leaders have allowed themselves to make unacceptable statements until yesterday that "Europe can not rely more on others and have to take security in their own hands."

What are the pros and cons of this initiative?

What are the minuses?

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