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EU Pentagon
henk - 24.12.2002 12:31

laatste keer

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/12/17/weudef17.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/12/17/ixworld.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=188389

No surprise.
Read EC President Romano Prodi's speeches from years ago.
He wanted:
A Euro Court
A Euro Police
A Euro currency.
They have these.
They are working on a Euro Constitution and a Euro military (all the most advanced and new equipment).
They are about to add 75 million new people to the EU in 2004.
475 million ppl. and a currency and economy about to replace The U.S.A.
I told a friend about 2 decades ago that Britain will eventually drop out and her and the U.S. will have an economic war then a real war with the Euro Beast.

Alarm at 'EU Pentagon' plan
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels
(Filed: 17/12/2002)


The European Union is drawing up plans for a "Euro-Pentagon" in Brussels commanded by a defence chief able to launch military operations anywhere in the world.

The proposals call for an EU defence secretary with responsibility for running operations.

His staff would be able to draw on an autonomous EU command and control nexus and an intelligence agency with satellite capability.

They are to be published today by the defence working group of the Convention on the Future of Europe. They will form the basis of the military section in the EU's draft constitution next June.

The group was chaired by the French commissioner Michel Barnier, who has been accused of playing down contributions from those opposed to a European army.

British objections appear to have been ignored in the final draft, though footnotes allude to intense disagreements among the group's members.

The document says the world has changed so dramatically since September 11, 2001, that national defence is "no longer sufficient".

The plans go far beyond the EU's 60,000-man rapid reaction force, which is to take on its first peacekeeping mission in the Balkans early next year.

The defence secretary - a beefed-up version of the current post of high representative held by Javier Solana of Spain - would report to EU defence ministers but would have powers to take "necessary decisions" in an emergency.

The force would have a broad mandate to "dispel hostility", a term that seems to open the door to much wider warfare than the existing menu of humanitarian tasks.

This military structure would be backed by a European Arms and Strategic Research Agency that could harness the EU's industrial might for future military needs. An EU military academy was also floated as a possibility.

The proposals are causing deep concern to the EU's four non-Nato neutral states - Austria, Sweden, Finland, and Ireland - and were greeted with alarm yesterday by the Tories.

Geoffrey Van Orden, MEP, the Tory defence spokesman in Brussels, said: "If this isn't an EU army then I don't know what it is. Mr Blair should call a halt to this before it is too late."

27 November 2002: France and Germany plan Euro defence union
22 November 2002: New force will end spectre of French-dominated Euro army
27 July 2002: Eurofile: Europe prepares to challenge America's role as a superpower
16 March 2002: Britain caves in on Euro army
1 March 2002: Superpower Europe goes on the agenda


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