[quote]The EU member states, the European External Action Service, and the European Commission welcome the pledges by leading European corporate entities to boost EU defense capabilities through targeted, high-volume financial contributions. . . . These contributions will enable the EU, within the period of its forthcoming budget, to build, train, integrate, and deploy its own supranational military task force.
In other words: since governments won’t buy the EU its own army, big business will. What nations seem incapable of offering will now be provided by a consortium of Europe’s capitalists, who are worried that EU political structures are unable to locate and defend the continent’s business interests around the world.
Smarter Defense (note the poke at NATO’s Smart Defense initiative) is a radical set of ideas, defined with unusual precision and seemingly approved in secret by all relevant players in the EU—except the European Parliament, because of its perceived affiliations with human rights NGOs.
The core of the new initiative will be a Friendship Projection Force (FPF), comprising up to 31 naval vessels. Each will carry the name “EU Security Ship” or EUSS. The first batch of ships will come from the French Mistral-class amphibious assault ships, originally earmarked for sale to Russia but now available as a corporate donation to the EU. They will be named EUSS Strasbourg and EUSS Heligoland.
Plans for additional ships, including a helicopter carrier and four German-built submarines, are at an “advanced stage,” according to EU officials. After a long, heated debate about where to put the EU flotilla’s naval base, the Ukraine crisis tilted the decision toward the historic former shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, home of the anti-Communist Solidarność movement.
A second, smaller naval headquarters will be built in Malta to cover the union’s southern flank. It is rumored that the force may also be deployed to support the EU’s border agency, Frontex, to counter illegal immigration. Special forces units, tactical and strategic airlift, and command and control capabilities will also be part of the initiative.[/quote]
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The Federation is coming closer to reality
[editline]1st April 2014[/editline]
[sp]lol[/sp]
While it surely does become a necessity at some point to fuse into some sort of "united states of Europe"-thing I don't know if it's good to trust people with so much money, especially if they are willing to pump out ships as donations.
Edit: Gosh, april 1st
"Friendship Projection Force"? Sounds like a Children's Cartoon
[QUOTE=Superkilll307;44421670]"Friendship Projection Force"? Sounds like a Children's Cartoon[/QUOTE]
Sounds like something North Korea would come up with.
lol thought it was real for a second.
[QUOTE=SilentOpp;44421716]Sounds like something North Korea would come up with.[/QUOTE]
If it was, you can guarantee it would host executions.
[QUOTE=Superkilll307;44421670]"Friendship Projection Force"[/QUOTE]
oh fuck im laughing
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