The campaign of 'El País' in favour of a European army

It is true that Europe's role in the wars that have taken place on the same continent has too often been a great source of shame for itself and for others. However, I do not know if the solution is to buy more instruments of war and tools for killing. It is not a figure of speech: I really do not know if there is another solution that does not involve fattening the sinister arms industry. And I observe, on the other hand, that in the Spanish press there is an almost unanimous tendency to bless the warlike race, on both sides of the editorial spectrum. Perhaps it is that The Country, the supposedly left-wing newspaper, has been part of the most accommodating establishment for many years now and that pushes it to assume the positions dictated by Atlanticism and economic power. That theAbc title "The time has come to create a European army" or that The World opting for the inflamed "Zelensky wakes up Europe" is part of the usual (supra)patriotic expansions of the right.

The Prisa newspaper, on the other hand, does not speak of the European armada on the front page, but in the editorial it plays on the taboo and, without ever using the key word army, spends the entire text inoculating this idea: "In a world where only brute force is respected, the EU is in a position of vulnerability", "Trump's contacts with Putin [...] demand a decisive and, above all, unitary response", "It is imperative that Europe expresses itself with one voice, not with 27" ] its willingness to counteract the unilateral actions of other countries", "The EU can no longer be a spectator" and, finally, "It is time [...] for it to develop its autonomy in matters of defence". A military escalation at a time of regrettable echoes with the worst years of the 20th century. What could go wrong?