#european-integration

#european-integration

Europe, the president of the European Commission declared, is engaged in a fight for a continent that is whole and at peace. Her analysis of the problem was pretty accurate. What is increasingly clear, however, is that the European Union is not the whole solution. The EU is good at many things. Being an effective defence organisation is not one of them.

At the heart of NATO's purpose is the principle of collective defense, laid out in Article 5: an attack on one member is an attack on all.

"Trade wars, defence threats and military aggression don't respect borders. More and more Europeans now recognise that their small, individual nations cannot withstand simultaneous pressure from both Washington and Moscow."