{"id":314406,"date":"2017-06-25T09:15:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T08:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/european-union-summit-agrees-to-historic-military-build-up\/"},"modified":"2017-06-25T09:15:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T08:15:45","slug":"european-union-summit-agrees-to-historic-military-build-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/european-union-summit-agrees-to-historic-military-build-up\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union summit agrees to \u201chistoric\u201d military build-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>European Union summit agrees to \u201chistoric\u201d military build-up<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Johannes Stern<br \/>\n    <br \/>24 June 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Following the beginning of the Brexit talks at the start of this past week, the European Union\u2019s (EU) member states are moving rapidly to transform the bloc into a military and defence union. At the center of the EU summit on Thursday and Friday in Brussels were far-reaching measures aimed at militarisation at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, it was agreed \u201cto establish comprehensive and ambitious Permanent Security Cooperation (PESCO) for the strengthening of European security and defence.\u201d Within three months, the governments will \u201cfinalise a joint list with criteria and obligations, together with concrete capability projects,\u201d according to the European Council\u2019s official website. This would also include \u201cmissions with the highest requirements,\u201d meaning military interventions with European \u201ccombat units.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Already at the beginning of the month, the EU agreed to establish a joint command centre for civilian and military operations and provide the European Commission with a multi-billion euro defence fund. A summit paper entitled \u201cConclusions of the European Council on security and defence\u201d welcomed this step \u201cand expects its swift utilisation.\u201d The goal is to build a \u201ccompetitive, innovative [\u2026] European defence industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the measures is to develop the EU into an aggressive great power capable, when required, to intervene militarily and wage war independently of NATO and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cReflection Paper on the future of European Defence,\u201d published by the European Commission on 7 June, states, \u201cEuropeans themselves are above all responsible for the improvement of European security. The resources are actually&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/06\/24\/euro-j24.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 European Union summit agrees to \u201chistoric\u201d military build-up By Johannes Stern 24 June 2017 Following the beginning of the Brexit talks at the start of this past week, the European Union\u2019s (EU) member states are moving rapidly to transform the bloc into a military and defence union. At the center of the EU summit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-314406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}