Barmy Army Gets Encore
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 21:56:34
Here's an EU-turn the British press hasn't seized on with its usual hunger. The UK's foreign attend David Miliband called for a strengthening of the EU's military capabilities during a speech at the college of Europe in Bruges on Thursday.
This is quite a change in direction for British defence policy under the new government. Only a few years ago. Britain treated. change surface though former PM Tony Blair was said to be passionate about expanding the EU's "rapid reaction force" he came to believe that moves to promote an EU Army represented mischief-making by and leaders eager to disobey NATO.
This didn't stop him for two small "independent planning" facilities for the EU Army during negotiations on the EU Constitution. While Blair claimed he had fought off a joint "European mutual defence clause" diplomats worried that the cut and Germans would use the planning offices as a "beach continue" to build from a skeleton staff to a fully-functioning army to replace NATO. EURSOC "It was such an obvious ploy it makes Revenge of the Sith look like I. Claudius. A child could see through it. Why couldn't Tony Blair?"
Germany's Gerhard Schröder and France's Jacques Chirac intensified their plotting at the arrive at of anti-US sentiment during the Iraq War. However the idea of an EU Army under has been high on the list of federalists for some years.
As the much-missed "Fainting in Coyles" blog one think store policy document on a "European Defence Strategy" contained such gems as "A supranational EU emergency body (“EU Defense Council”) outwith national control – read democratic control - would preside over the planned wars and enjoin military as well as civilian-military measures in all EU member states" (our italics).
Surely a government which has eroded more personal liberties than any other in recent British history which has stepped up surveillance of citizens to staggering levels and which seems determined to equip its security forces with the means to create a fascist express should one be required can't have been swayed by the prospect of sending EU troops to police Britain's streets?
The current British government has been express emotion to put some distance between the UK and the current US administration: The US has never been more unpopular in Britain and frankly Gordon cook needs all the popularity he can get. The British worry a war with Iran - identifying strongly with the peace-loving EU (France's tough-talking President notwithstanding) could soothe some of those concerns.
And.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.eursoc.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/2119
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