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> That the EU should stand up and be an actual 3rd party That would require allignment of international politics across every EU state. If that is ever going t
by badpun 7y ago
> That the EU should stand up and be an actual 3rd party
That would require allignment of international politics across every EU state. If that is ever going to happen, we are very far, perhaphs hundreds of years, from that.
- luckylion 7y agoNot necessarily. It wouldn't need to be a total unified process where you can't start before everybody agrees on every detail and it has been translated to a million local dialects. If you get Germany and France to work together, you're half way there, just like with Airbus/EADS. Nobody needs or wants to wait around for Luxembourg or Ireland, and we really only need the heavy weights - they're the ones paying for it anyhow.
- badpun 7y agoRight now, Germany, with Nord Stream 2, is acting in a way that threatens the security of Poland (EU's sixth largest country). If Germans, the supposed leaders of Europe do it, I can't see anyone else rising above their particular interests.
- jdietrich 7y agoThe EU is very serious about developing an integrated foreign security apparatus; those efforts have taken on a particular urgency since the Ukraine crisis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Security_and_Defence_Policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Security_and_Defence_Po...