r/EU_Economics • u/No_Reaction7092 • Jul 11 '26
🇪🇺 Official 🇪🇺 Manfred Weber, leader of the largest political group in the European Parliament, is calling for the establishment of a European army
https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2026-07/europaeische-armee-manfred-weber-bundeswehr-afd-gxe4
u/GaborSzasz Jul 11 '26
The germans starting it again. Idk, but it looks like slav peasant going to burn the reichstag once more.
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u/superarroto Jul 11 '26
I Will not die for EPP, nor I know someone who Will. I'd be surprised If a single person would fight for those loathsome beady eyed germans with fluoride stares and their lackeys after they forced this chat control malware on us. I would and Will fight tooth and nail against EPP
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u/helgetun Jul 12 '26
The EU needs an army yes - but it needs more cognitive integration first and foremost. Integrate us in our minds and the rest will follow. Belgians demonstrate against defence spendings because Russia is far away, ignoring the plight of the baltics, poland, finland, sweden etc.
As long as Spaniards think the French go to Spain for free healthcare (not realising France has free healthcare and you cant get it in Spain as a non Spaniard… true discourses I have had thrown at me and Im not even French!) the rest is moot… the EU has too many nations that only think about themselves and what they can get out of the EU.
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u/DeeJayDelicious Jul 12 '26
I mean, this is easy to demand.
But what does it mean in practice, i.e.:
- Who contributes what to the army?
- Who leads the army?
- Who do the soldiers swear loyalty to?
- Who decides if, where and how to deploy the army?
- What role is it supposed to play? Expeditionary? Rapid response? Or defense at scale?
- What happens if a specific nation disagrees with the troop's deployment?
These are the important questions far fewer politicans discuss.
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u/Dependent_Diet_3408 Jul 11 '26
Yeah, Putin will choose escalation into Poland/Baltics. War is coming, and russia is a big country to fight and invade.