09
Mar
2015
media Ifri in the Media
Vivien PERTUSOT,  on Euronews, interviewed by Audrey Tilve.

Defence experts cool on Juncker’s EU army scheme

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European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker’s call for an EU army has been widely dismissed by defence experts. At a time, when several European countries are failing to meet their NATO defence spending commitments, many question how an EU army could be feasible. The former prime minister of Luxembourg made his comments in the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, a German weekly.

“The 28 member states don’t share the same perceptions of threats and don’t share the same means with which to respond to such threats,” said Vivien Pertusot of the French Institute of International Relations. He added: “Rather than trying to fix a problem we are trying to impose a solution and (hoping) that’s how the problem will be fixed.”

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Keywords
Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN) PSDC CSDP North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)