European Union: thirteen empty chairs for Ukraine

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A proposal against the Franco-German boycott of Ukraine’s accession to the European Union

Germany and France continue to oppose granting EU candidate country status to Ukraine. Since this position is not supported by any serious political arguments, the EU Member States in favour should adopt Charles de Gaulle’s ’empty chair’ strategy and not participate in the summits of the Heads of State and Government.

The Lithuania Tribune, June 7, 2022, VoxEurop, June 14, 2022

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Rutte e gli altri

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Quelli per cui l’Ucraina appartiene alla famiglia europea, ma non c’è fretta di farla entrare nell’Ue

Linkiesta, 15 Marzo 2022

Olivier Dupuis e Carmelo Palma

La politica della Nato di forte sostegno politico, ampio supporto logistico e militare e moderazione strategica non è certo perfetta. È infatti sorprendente che l’organizzazione atlantica non abbia previsto, fornendo per tempo sistemi di difesa missilistica e aerea, che il clamoroso fallimento dell’operazione speciale avrebbe portato il presidente della Federazione Russa a sostituire la guerra lampo con una strategia del terrore, cioè con una “cecenizzazione” della guerra, prendendo di mira i civili e creando milioni di rifugiati, anche al fine di destabilizzare l’Europa e accrescere per essa i costi della solidarietà con l’Ucraina. La stessa strategia usata in Siria. Kiev e le altre città ucraine come Grozny o come Aleppo. Nondimeno, la tenuta dell’organizzazione atlantica e la sua compattezza hanno dimostrato l’errore della diagnosi frettolosa, secondo cui la Nato era cerebralmente morta. La Nato è viva e il suo cervello pure. Lire la suite

A Union or the sex of angels

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On 15 November last, Die Welt reported on the initiative of SPD members of the Bundestag for the creation of a 28th European army: a Common European Army.

Contrary to others who believe that the “Europe of Defence, which we thought unthinkable, we have done it”, Fritz Felgentreu and his colleagues consider that Europe still has a lot to do, and they provide a concrete outline of a way forward. The first merit of their proposal is doubtless that it shows unambiguously how the Union might achieve a real sharing of sovereignty in a particularly sensitive area, that of the common security of the 27. Their scenario proposes that this army should be common and “community-based”, meaning that it should come under the authority of the Union’s institutions and comprise European soldiers and not contingents from national armies. Another undeniable merit of their proposal is that it is both compatible with, and complementary to, an approach to European defence based on national armies and NATO membership, an idea brilliantly restated by German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer in her recent speech at the Bundeswehr University in Hamburg. Lire la suite