While I would love to see an EU army, I don’t think it’s realistic. Unfortunately most countries are too culturally and ideologically different, and this would never work in the long term. What would happen if an anti-EU party took control of a member country? What if one country objects to the European army being used in a specific operation?
We’ve seen countless times when an EU member has sabotaged the entire union or made specific things more difficult because, in their opinion, it would go against their country’s interests.
We are not the United States of Europe. Many older people do not share a sense of European pride, and sometimes even hate their neighbouring countries.
Those are great questions, and I think, as you say, this won’t be straightforward or easy to achieve. But in the long run, the union will need some sort of shared defense framework in place, and now is a good to start discussing it.
I guess these “older people” won’t be around when this eventually becomes a reality.
Let’s hope so. Creating a better, more united Europe would be truly amazing. The whole “Country A vs Country B” mentality within our union is stupid and only makes us weaker.
This approach works in times of peace and prosperity, but when a crisis emerges, we drown in pointless discussions instead of addressing the issue.
While I would love to see an EU army, I don’t think it’s realistic. Unfortunately most countries are too culturally and ideologically different, and this would never work in the long term. What would happen if an anti-EU party took control of a member country? What if one country objects to the European army being used in a specific operation?
We’ve seen countless times when an EU member has sabotaged the entire union or made specific things more difficult because, in their opinion, it would go against their country’s interests.
We are not the United States of Europe. Many older people do not share a sense of European pride, and sometimes even hate their neighbouring countries.
But NATO is not impossible? Quite some double think.
Maybe we could have many EU brigades each composed by countries with close interests.
Those are great questions, and I think, as you say, this won’t be straightforward or easy to achieve. But in the long run, the union will need some sort of shared defense framework in place, and now is a good to start discussing it.
I guess these “older people” won’t be around when this eventually becomes a reality.
Let’s hope so. Creating a better, more united Europe would be truly amazing. The whole “Country A vs Country B” mentality within our union is stupid and only makes us weaker.
This approach works in times of peace and prosperity, but when a crisis emerges, we drown in pointless discussions instead of addressing the issue.