Brussels' veil completely slips as leading German MEP demands EU army: 'We need strength!'
EUROPHILES have used the calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan to add weight to their burning desire to create an EU army.
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In a recent meeting, German politician Manfred Weber insisted that “the hour for Europe is only now striking” in international events after America withdrew from the war-torn country last month. Mr Weber, the leader of the European People's Party in the EU Parliament, warned that if the EU withdraws from conflicts across the planet China and Russia “will fill the vacant spaces”.
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He added: “Europe generally needs military capabilities.
“Take the cyberwar. In Lithuania or Latvia and beyond, Russia is waging a hybrid war. The Irish health system was recently paralysed.
“The attacks on public infrastructure are getting closer.
“(We need) a European task force with drones and a cyber brigade defending the online infrastructure.”
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Mr Weber went on to say that Europeans must “continue to represent our values” which are human rights, freedom rights and women's rights.
And while the general mood in Germany may be to say “goodbye to foreign assignments”, he warned that short-term thinking like this will come back to bite.
He added: “I can only warn against that.
“If we withdraw from conflict, tomorrow we will wake up in a world that is not ours and confronted with problems of a completely different dimension.
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