“Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, before putting forward ideas to create an EU peacekeeping army, must first learn how to humanely solve the problem of refugees and migrants, protecting the borders of the Union.”
This is what the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel on the occasion of Tajani’s statement that the EU needs an army for peacekeeping and foreign policy.
The diplomat drew attention to the statement of the head of the Italian Foreign Ministry, who proposed to form in the European Union “its own armed forces that could play a role in maintaining peace and preventing conflicts.”
“An EU army? Maybe we should start by developing our own Covid vaccine? Or learn to humanely protect, in accordance with our international obligations, the borders of the European Union? Solve the issue of refugees and migrants and only then create army,” noted Zakharova.
“Before the formation of a unified army, it would be good to find out what kind of fuel we are going to use for driving, what kind of fuel we are going to use for heating? Otherwise, the American president will arrive in Brussels and say that he will raise fuel prices if the EU army does not attacking those he pointed out,” she added.
The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry urged the Italian minister to think “why then every NATO country (read the EU) has to pay colossal sums into the common treasury (and actually to Washington) that go to guarantee their security?” , reports Trud.
Earlier, Tajani said that “in a world with such tough countries as the US, China, India, Russia”, defense and common armed forces “must become common” for the European Union and this cannot be delayed.
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