/ world today news/ Without a united European army, the EU countries will be “sparrows” among the “eagles” such as the USA, China, India and Russia, Italian Foreign Minister Tajani warned. According to him, the EU is ready for peacemaking and restraint, but not for war.
The EU should create its own army to keep the peace and prevent conflicts. This was said by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Antonio Tajani, in an interview with the newspaper La Stampa.
“We need a European army. This is a basic prerequisite for conducting an effective European foreign policy,” the politician noted.
Tajani stressed that in a world with such players as the US, China, India, Russia, with crises in space from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific region, Italian, German, French or Slovenian citizens can only be protected by the European Union, hence the postponement the creation of a unified army is not allowed.
According to him, if the EU remains divided, European countries will always be “helpless sparrows in a world where eagles fly”.
The European Union is ready for peacekeeping, surveillance, deterrence, but not war, Tajani concluded. He added that efforts must be joined as quickly as possible, otherwise the bloc will start to “go out of the game”.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commented on Tajani’s words, suggesting that before putting forward ideas for the creation of an EU peacekeeping army, he should learn to humanely solve the problem of refugees and migrants, protecting the borders of the union.
“Before creating a unified army, it would be good to understand what fuel it will run and fly on.”
“And then the US president will arrive in Brussels and say he will raise fuel prices if the EU army doesn’t attack those he names,” she added.
At the end of March 2022, against the background of military actions in Ukraine, EU countries for the first time in history agreed on a common defense strategy Strategic Compass. Ten points became new elements of the strategy, among which was the creation of an EU rapid deployment force of up to 5,000 military personnel.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on European countries to create a common air defense system to make Europe more “sovereign”, better able to defend itself against external threats and effectively counter competition from countries such as China.
NATO has criticized the possible emergence of its own armed forces of the European Union. Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned that any attempt to weaken the relationship between the European Union and the United States after the EU has its own army could “split” Europe.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov believes that NATO will not allow the European Union to independently decide where and how to use its armed forces.
Translation: SM
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