European defense: what is Draghi doing?
European defense between objectives, mirages and challenges. The intervention of Andrea Armaro, journalist, former head of communication at the Ministry of Defense
Dear manager,
it is a great discussion of European defense after the sudden withdrawal of NATO from Afghanistan.
Decision taken by the United States, after the Doha agreements with the Taliban and, once again, without real involvement of the allies.
An idea that of the European Defense of which Italy is a participant, aware that without a military force on the tables that matter you cannot participate, they do not allow you to participate. The same pact between the United States, Australia and Great Britain for the defense in the Pacific is an opportunity to be seized to reflect on the common defense.
However, I fear that not all concerned have understood. The European Parliament, for example, lacks the Defense Commission, a clear sign of how it is lived or rather of how the issue is not really heard by the Strasbourg Assembly.
Many, the more technical ones, even pretend not to understand what it means to take this path. European Defense is not about creating industrial agreements to favor individual projects from time to time, or setting up a contingent of 6,000 or 60,000 soldiers ready to intervene.
It is more complex: it is the sharing of ideals, of a political idea (such as Europe), of objectives, of information (intelligence), of commands, of barracks, of means, of decisions. In short, the transfer of national sovereignty or the creation of a shared sovereignty.
Useful, necessary, indispensable if Europe wants to be an important and authoritative political subject.
It is a very political issue that requires good ideas and representatives. The Prime Minister Mario Draghi for his strongly pro-European convictions and aware of the absence of a European Armed Force is the only one in Europe at this moment who could take charge of them.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/difesa-europea-che-fa-draghi/ on Mon, 22 Nov 2021 09:24:53 +0000.