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>Sadly because of historical reasons we can't have a European army No, history is not the issue, it's because good luck convincing French or Germans for exampl

>Sadly because of historical reasons we can't have a European army No, history is not the issue, it's because good luck convincing French or Germans for example, they gotta send their men to fight protecting Poland, Romania or Bulgaria for example, or vice versa. All you have to do is look at how badly EU countries cooperated during the Greek economic crisis, the migrant crisis of 2015, the Covid crisis, etc. Every EU member government was blaming each other or the immigrants from poorer countries and refusing to cooperate or come to a consensus. And you think military cooperation will somehow work better?

viraptor 5y ago
We don't have an international pact triggered by historical experience around handling refugees, or infectious disease control. We have one like that exactly for the purpose of military support. So yes, we expect NATO members to step up for protection of other members. We have joint exercises so that the forces do have common approaches and plans.
- viraptor 5y ago
  Turns out things change quickly: https://twitter.com/BBCkatyaadler/status/1498017173792514051 https://twitter.com/BBCkatyaadler/status/1498017173792514051 > EU announces it has agreed unanimously amongst all member countries to take in Ukrainian refugees fir up to 3 years without asking them to first apply for asylum.
cyberlurker 5y ago
In the end I’d say the Greek economic crisis was handled well. The things you mention are very tricky and not guaranteed to have any solutions.
markvdb 5y ago
These crises have all increased cooperation within the EU to some extent: - The Greek economy is not dead thanks to an EU debt jubilee that could not be called that way. - The migrant crisis has increased the role of Frontex and other EU level instruments by an extent unimaginable before. - My significant other is Latvian, lives in Belgium, got her first and second covid shot in France, and her third one in Germany. - In this crisis, even - hm, let's call them "less cooperative" politicians- like Matteo Salvini, Mateusz Morawiecki and Viktor Orban got behind several common EU policies at political light speed. - Did you see the recent flurry of NATO moving east announcements?

viraptor 5y ago

We don't have an international pact triggered by historical experience around handling refugees, or infectious disease control. We have one like that exactly for the purpose of military support. So yes, we expect NATO members to step up for protection of other members. We have joint exercises so that the forces do have common approaches and plans.

viraptor 5y ago
Turns out things change quickly: https://twitter.com/BBCkatyaadler/status/1498017173792514051 https://twitter.com/BBCkatyaadler/status/1498017173792514051 > EU announces it has agreed unanimously amongst all member countries to take in Ukrainian refugees fir up to 3 years without asking them to first apply for asylum.

cyberlurker 5y ago

In the end I’d say the Greek economic crisis was handled well. The things you mention are very tricky and not guaranteed to have any solutions.

markvdb 5y ago

These crises have all increased cooperation within the EU to some extent: - The Greek economy is not dead thanks to an EU debt jubilee that could not be called that way. - The migrant crisis has increased the role of Frontex and other EU level instruments by an extent unimaginable before. - My significant other is Latvian, lives in Belgium, got her first and second covid shot in France, and her third one in Germany. - In this crisis, even - hm, let's call them "less cooperative" politicians- like Matteo Salvini, Mateusz Morawiecki and Viktor Orban got behind several common EU policies at political light speed. - Did you see the recent flurry of NATO moving east announcements?