Sánchez: EU must build common defence, even without full bloc support | Euractiv
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“Europe must move forward in its integration process and equip itself with a truly common defence," the Spanish prime minister said
  • Melchior@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    So your argument for the US being dependent on the US is the preamble of a treaty, which itself has no legal consequences of any kind?

    • plyth@feddit.orgBannedEnglish
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      2 days ago

      This effectively emptied the Treaty of any sense (in Gaullist understanding) and put end to General de Gaulle’s hopes of building the EEC into a counterweight to the US and the USSR.

      General de Gaulle’s hopes of building the EEC into a counterweight to the US and the USSR. “The Germans are behaving like pigs. They are putting themselves completely at the Americans’ service. They’re betraying the spirit of the Franco-German Treaty. And they’re betraying Europe.”[11] Later, in 1965, the General told his closest aides behind closed doors: “The Germans had been my greatest hope; they are my greatest disappointment.”