Brussels wants to coordinate all European armies to achieve military "independence."

BrusselsA large army, but divided among twenty-seven member states. This is the problem of the European Union, according to Brussels. It's not that the EU as a whole has few military capabilities, but that individual countries operate them separately, and there are areas that are more than covered by several armies, while there are others where the European Commission sees shortcomings. For this reason, Ursula von der Leyen's EU executive wants to move toward a union of the EU's military forces and strengthen coordination in defense of all Member States.

Brussels proposes that Member States pool what they have and what they don't, and that the European Commission coordinate which capabilities need to be jointly strengthened. In this regard, it suggests that, once the shortcomings have been thoroughly analyzed, groups or coalitions of countries be formed and assigned what they should jointly strengthen.

The European Commission's proposal this Monday comes days before the summit of EU heads of state and government, taking place this Wednesday in Copenhagen (Denmark). The meeting will discuss how to move forward with the European Club's rearmament plan and, among other things, the drone wall that the EU wants to create on the eastern flank of the community bloc after Russia has systematically violated European airspace with fighter jets and, above all, drones.

In fact, one example of these coalitions of countries deciding to jointly strengthen a military area is the initiative agreed upon last Friday by the majority of the EU's eastern flank states: Estonia, Finland, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Romania. Hungary and Slovakia, the two most pro-Russian countries in the European club, were excluded.

This drone wall aims to increase EU member states' radar capabilities to locate them and the weapons to intercept them. The European Commission itself admits that they are currently prepared to stop fighter jets, but lack the appropriate technology to stop drones, which want to fly lower and are more difficult to detect.

It should be remembered that in recent days, Vladimir Putin's regime has increased air incursions into European Union airspace. NATO has already registered attacks in Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Romania, and Danish authorities are investigating whether the drones that flew over the airspace near Copenhagen and Aalborg airports were Russian. These hybrid attacks took place in the days leading up to the summit in the Danish capital of heads of state and government of the EU and the European Political Community, which brings together around fifty leaders from across Europe and also includes Turkey. In fact, Denmark has requested security reinforcements within NATO for the organization of these meetings.

Military "independence"

The new word that appears in all the documents of the European institutions is independenceWith the return of Donald Trump, who threatens to have the United States stop providing military protection to NATO allies, Brussels wants to achieve military autonomy and stop depending on the current tenant of the White House. In this regard, the European Commission asserts in its proposal this Monday that it is necessary to improve the "coordination" of European militaries in order to become an "independent international actor" in security.

However, Von der Leyen's executive recalls that Brussels in no case questions the autonomy of state militaries and is committed to increasing the EU's military autonomy in conjunction with NATO, which is controlled by NATO. de facto by the United States.