“We must create the European Army. Community armed forces to guide them with the same flag and interest. Only then will we become a true union and guarantee a lasting peace in our region. “That phrase has pronounced it on Wednesday in Congress the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in his message to analyze the new context for Europe, with defense and security as great priorities; Spain is not easy to adapt to the current scenario, and while Brussels works to find a firm strategy And it also warns citizens that they have to play their role, the chief executive has put one of the foci at that point.
But right now it is impossible; It means starting the house on the roof. A unique European force involves developing coordination between countries that right now does not exist. Because?
Daniel Gilanalyst The Political Room Specialized in EU explains 20 minutes that for now “The European Union does not even have effective military mobility plans; He has the ambition to have them, but the truth is that today we want to pass tanks from Spain to the Czech Republic we do not have a way to do it, “he exemplifies. Likewise, he makes another more deep analysis.” In the end the national states are jealous of their powers, we are seeing it, and the defense is one of the ones that are most jealous because it directly affects their sovereignty. A state that has no control or its army is quite faded as a state as a stateas its own national entity, and directly affects how the State looks to itself. “
“These issues of European army or not, in the event that there is a favorable position to them, You have to see them as the end point of an integration process that still has a lot and should be very significant“, warns Gil, for whom the only way in which this can even be seriously proposed” is with a very, very integrated union in all other senses: in economic terms, in fiscal terms, for example, social, in terms of what the State does, of the welfare state, of unemployment insurance, social protection, etc. “, it conlies.
Sanchez announced that he will launch “a great National Development and impulse of Spanish technology and industry “dedicated to defense as part of the increase in investment in this area. This was promised by the President in his appearance before the Congress of Deputies dedicated to offering details of the military policy that announced a few weeks ago, in which he did not offer any calendar to address that increase in the expense, but he did repeat on several occasions that he will be carried out without “touching a cent” of the social and environmental games of the budgets.
A state that has no control or its army is quite faded as a state as a state
The president also was in favor of the EU who finance the bulk of the increase in investment in defense through mechanisms such as the issuance of joint debt or money transfers to the states thoroughly lost. And, also, the president expressly supported the creation of an EU army that replaces the National Armed Forces. “How much to invest and how to finance is only part of the necessary debatethe really noun is whether we invest better and if we invest together the Europeans, “said Sánchez.
Now, a community army is far from even becoming a firm debate between so many issues related to defense. The first problem in this regard are the differences in security investments that EU member countries do right now. Spain for example is in tail, with 1.29% of GDP; wants to reach 2% “as soon as possible”, But it is still far from what demanded. According to the data managed, only Poland will exceed 4%(up to 4.12%) at the end of this year, while other countries such as Estonia, Latvia or Greece may exceed 3%.
In that lagged car in which Spain is located There are also Croatia, Portugal, Italy, Canada, Belgium, Luxembourg and Slovenia. These are the countries that at the end of this year will still be below 2%, and therefore also also from that 5% that the United States now claims. Meanwhile, the European Commission requires that the partners increase their expenses so that A fund of 650,000 million can be generatedwhich would be added to the 150,000 million that would leave the community executive. In that road map is the debate … and not in a European army, which is not even mentioned in Brussels plans.
The second obstacle is that Not all the same Member States have the same interests. Sanchez already spoke weeks ago of “solidarity” with the east precisely because of that: Baltic and Nordics have the “Russian threat” closer and that is why they insist on the defensive message from a more militaristic point of view; the south, meanwhile, has other concerns, hence Spain and Italy want to include elements such as cybersecurity, border protection or the fight against terrorism in the defensive umbrella. Without finding real common points, unique troops will not be viable. In fact, more than a year ago the then high representative of the EU, Josep Borrell, tried to give in the nail: you have to start with a better coordination between the national armies before starting talking about a European one.
In addition, Sánchez does not want to talk about “rearme” and that takes weight to joint troops. “I don’t like the term rearme at all. I do not share that term at all. I think we must talk another way when we talk about improving European defense capabilities “, because this, for Spain, goes beyond the military. He also recalled that The EU “is a soft power”. The concepts “matter”, said diplomatic sources, which do not see this element as a key in debates.
For the President of the Government, the Great EU challenge is now “growing inwards” and “open even more out.” He has asked “to continue weaving ties and commercial relations” with other regions of the world, with mentions of Mercosur or India. “More Europe means more social policy, more relations with commercial partners and logically also security and defense.” Thus, the construction of the new era of defense has to start with the foundations; The European army, if it arrives, would be the end. The EU cannot run in safety when it is now even starting to crawl.
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