September 5, 2019, 2:46 PM The phones at the White House switchboard are ringing nonstop. World leaders are jostling to get through to congratulate a newly reelected U.S. President Donald Trump. Now – more than ever – Europe needs an army to call its own, writes David Andelman. “Four years ago, French President Emmanuel Macron proposed a European defense force – a counterweight to Meanwhile, Germany’s military spending dropped from 2.6 percent of GDP in 1988 (in West Germany) to as low as 1.1 percent in 2015, according to SIPRI. (It sat at 1.4 percent in 2020.) France’s
Here’s a guide to how the biggest war in Europe since World War II came about, and what’s at stake for Russia and the world. A Ukrainian mortar team on the front lines in eastern Ukraine as
Seven EU countries have ordered ammunition under a landmark European Union procurement scheme to get urgently needed artillery shells to Ukraine and replenish depleted Western stocks, according to

Proponents of forming the European Union army argue that a military power equal to the United States, in the long run, can transform this Union from a “regional entity” into an active

About 150 members of the Florida National Guard are deployed in Ukraine to assist in training the country’s military forces. The Pentagon has also said that US Special Operations Command Europe
Gordon Sondland, US ambassador to the EU, said in March that if the bloc persisted with its “stubbornness or protectionism” on its multibillion-euro joint military projects, the US would
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Ambassador Mark Gitenstein. Relations between the European Union and the United States began in 1953, when US diplomats visited the European Coal and Steel Community (the EU precursor, created in 1951) in addition to the national governments of its six founding countries ( Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany ). [1]
06/16/2020. A decision to move US troops out of Germany would mark a major change in the defense relationship between the two countries and reshape the basis of American military presence in
The European Union represents a coming together of twenty-seven different European countries since World War II to ensure lasting peace on the European continent. While the EU began as an economic union, it rapidly became a political union as well. In joining the EU, each country has agreed to give up some political and economic authority.
The so-called Standing Corps new uniform features a prominent EU flag on the sleeves of its blue jackets. A similar design could be used in the creation of a genuine EU army, which has been
The bloc would commit to establishing an EU Intervention Force of about 5,000 troops by 2025 to respond to “the full range of military crisis-management tasks, for example a rescue and ObWgrC.
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