{"id":320459,"date":"2017-08-06T00:08:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/worrying-meps-publish-eu-army-dossier\/"},"modified":"2017-08-06T00:08:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:08:24","slug":"worrying-meps-publish-eu-army-dossier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/worrying-meps-publish-eu-army-dossier\/","title":{"rendered":"Worrying: MEPs Publish EU Army Dossier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>MEPs have published plans for a fully-fledged EU army that could be deployed by Brussels without member states\u2019 prior approval.<\/p>\n<p>In a development that many across the continent will find concerning, European MPs have published a dossier that sets out plans for an integrated EU army.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the militaristic plans were drawn up by the liberal ALDE (European Alliance of Liberals &amp; Democrats) grouping, led by Brexit negotiator-in-chief \u2013 and chronic Anglophobe \u2013 Guy Verhofstadt.<\/p>\n<p>The plans state that a combined land, sea and air force would be autonomous of member states, meaning that it could be deployed directly from Brussels without prior approval of national governments.<\/p>\n<p>During Britain\u2019s referendum campaign, many pro-EU politicians such as the liberal \u2013 and Verhofstadt ally \u2013 Nick Clegg derided the fear of an EU army as \u201ca dangerous fantasy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Those who warned against such a development have been vindicated \u2013 again.<\/p>\n<p>Many across the continent share the fears of the British public and have warned that an EU army further removes sovereignty from the nation state, whilst also equipping Brussels with a force to use against member states who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defendevropa.org\/2017\/the-establishment\/the-truth-about-eu-poland-row\/\" target=\"_blank\">step out of line<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are also fears that\u00a0EU fanatics could deploy such an army against the peoples of Europe themselves in the event that public opinion against Brussels spills over into mass protest.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WiIIiam14\" target=\"_blank\">William<\/a>\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defendevropa.org\/2017\/the-establishment\/worrying-meps-publish-eu-army-dossier\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/worrying-meps-publish-eu-army-dossier\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEPs have published plans for a fully-fledged EU army that could be deployed by Brussels without member states\u2019 prior approval. In a development that many across the continent will find concerning, European MPs have published a dossier that sets out plans for an integrated EU army. Ironically, the militaristic plans were drawn up by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-320459","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\/320459","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\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}