Huge vanity project: EU army plan is all about creating SUPERSTATE, says ex-military chief

Friday, June 30, 2017
By Paul Martin

BRUSSELS’ plans to create its own army has “little to do with military capability” and is all about morphing the bloc even further into a superstate, a eurosceptic MEP and former army brigadier has said.

By NICK GUTTERIDGE, BRUSSELS CORRESPONDENT
Express.co.uk
Fri, Jun 30, 2017

Tory MEP Geoffrey Van Orden blasted the EU’s ambitious defence proposals as a massive vanity project, but said Britain should reluctantly play along with some of them in order to retain global influence.

The former army chief, who backed Remain despite describing himself as a “dyed-in-the-wool eurosceptic”, accused eurocrats of “deceiving” people by claiming further defence integration would yield better results.

And he said Britain should not become part of any future EU army, although in order to retain influence our forces could agree to take part in “soft” operations led by the bloc such as training and humanitarian deployments.

Mr Van Orden’s comments came just weeks after Brussels unveiled the latest progress in its march towards more integration of European militaries with plans to set up a permanent command structure gathering pace.

Writing for the Brexit Central website, he said: “We know that the driving motives for EU defence policy have little to do with military capability and are all about European political integration, promoting the EU brand, and ‘autonomy’ from the United States.

“Successive American Presidents have wanted their European allies to contribute more to defence and to be reliable security partners.

“The EU would do neither of these. It is a deceit to imagine that the EU is the answer to the “burden-sharing” quandary.

“There is no evidence that the intervention of the institutions of the EU in defence – creating more HQs, manipulating the statistics – will somehow produce more defence potency.”

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