Berlin Beware: EU Army is Chance for US, France ‘to Wage Wars With Our Soldiers’
SputnikNews.com
08.03.2017
Germany should avoid joining a European army because it would put German military might at the disposal of its war-mongering neighbors, German politician Willy Wimmer told Sputnik.
The formation of an EU army is a long-held ambition in Brussels, where the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council voted on Monday to establish a new joint military command center for foreign operations.
The idea is supported by EU officials including Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who has called for “a new approach to building a European security union with the end goal of establishing a European army.”
German CDU politician Willy Wimmer, former vice-president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and former Parliamentary State Secretary to the Defense Ministry, told Sputnik Deutschland that Berlin has nothing to gain from an EU army.
He said that Germany needs a debate on its membership of NATO, which is “a danger to peace across the world,” but Berlin shouldn’t replace its membership with a European military alliance.
“In Bonn at the time of German reunification, we saw clearly that two parties were very interested in the potential of Germany’s military apparatus. On the one hand the Anglo-Saxons, for their global wars, that has been exposed. On the other hand, the neighboring French Republic, which calls for one war after another in Africa in accordance with its economic and other interests,” Wimmer said.
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