Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani has joined the growing chorus of calls for the creation of a European Union army, arguing that it is worth sacrificing the national sovereignty of member states in exchange for security.
Antonio Tajani, who took over as leader of the center-right Forza Italia party following the death of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi last year, and currently serves as Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in Giorgia Meloni's coalition government, asserts that: did. The most important reform needed by the European Union is the formation of a collective army among its 27 countries.
when you talk to an italian La Stampa newspaper, tajani Said: “If we want to be agents of peace in the world, we need a European army. And this is a fundamental prerequisite for an effective European foreign policy. The United States, China, India, In a world with powerful players like Russia and crises stretching from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific, the only thing that can protect the peoples of Italy, Germany, France and Slovenia is what already exists: the European Union and will be called.
“Defense and a common military must therefore become a concrete fact. It can no longer be postponed. Public resistance to sharing these ‘pieces of sovereignty’ has always been strong, but if we are divided If we remain as we are, we will become defenseless sparrows in a world where eagles always fly.”
Italy's deputy prime minister has argued that EU member states need to collectivize their military spending or face “dropping out of the competition”. But Tajani rejected the idea that the EU military would become a strike force, saying it should instead be a “peacekeeping, surveillance and deterrence” force.
The creation of an EU army was dismissed as a conspiracy theory by anti-Brexit activists ahead of the 2016 independence referendum, but Brussels has been steadily moving towards creating a single army for years.
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Italian politicians believe that in addition to creating a fully integrated military, Brussels will consolidate the top leadership into one position, with the powers of European Commission President and European Council President in one person. He insisted that it should be given.
“We can't have two presidents,” he said, adding that while there is likely to be opposition to the idea, “the current two-headed system has reached its limit.”
“With all precautions and countermeasures in place, the European leadership now needs to be represented by one person and we need to talk about it,” Tajani said.
He argued that the EU needed to “speed up decisions” and proposed abolishing national veto rights in favor of “majority votes” on important decisions. This would overturn the long-held principle of unanimity in decision-making. This principle, like the powers given to the states of the United States, serves as a bulwark against the domination of smaller states within the Union by great powers, in this case France and Germany.
The principle has come under increasing criticism from globalist forces in Brussels in recent days after Hungary used its veto to push back on demands for early recognition of Ukraine's membership, but Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has come under fire from globalists in Brussels. argues that this is potentially possible. Dragging Europe into a full-scale conflict with Russia.
The push for EU enlargement and the creation of an EU army have become louder in light of the foreign policy failures of the US Biden administration, particularly its failure to stop the Ukraine war and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. It has become. As a result, the Taliban quickly erased all gains made by two decades of U.S. military operations.
In the weeks immediately following the disastrous withdrawal, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Afghanistan had shown the need for the EU to build “political will” to create its own army. Ta. European Council President Charles Michel echoed this sentiment, saying the withdrawal from Afghanistan showed the EU needed to increase its “strategic autonomy” from the United States.
