EU politics
Nick Smith – Rearming Europe
An overview of why Europe’s establishment has embraced re-militarisation. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
Defence
EU politics
Politico – Italy’s grand plan to meet NATO target: A €13.5B bridge to Sicily
Europe is a laughing stock. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Politico – NATO allies agree to 5 percent defense spending goal
Amazingly, only Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has seen sense and got an opt-out to NATO’s new demand on countries to spend 5% of their GDP on defence. All the rest are now lashed to […]
EU politics
Molly O’Neal – German leaders have miscalculated popular will for war spending
Polling suggests the German public has not been won over to the establishment’s war fever. Molly O’Neal is a university lecturer and research scholar, with a long diplomatic career focused on Central Europe, Russia and […]
EU politics
Pascal Lottaz – Europe’s Walk of The Dammed: War Hysteria Today, War Euphoria Tomorrow
‘The continent is racing in Seven-Mile-Boots toward its next calamity. The Trump-Abandonment shock is stoking a war fever not seen in a century.’ In Pascal Lottaz’ Substack. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Binoy Kampmark – Militarising Europe: The EU Defence Spending Bug
The merchants of death are on the march in Brussels, and have little time for democratic norms. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: bkampmark@gmail.com Cross-posted from […]
EU politics
Politico – EU leaders fear Commission power grab on defense after Trump’s exit
We should all fear Ursula Von Der Leyen being able to decide on matters of war and peace on behalf of Europe. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Anatol Lieven – Paris Summit was theatre, and much ado about nothing
The Paris Summit was yet more evidence that Europe’s elites haven’t come to terms with the new reality. Anatol Lieven is Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He was […]
EU politics
Antoaneta Russi – Defense firms need full access to EU cash as Putin haunts Europe, Draghi says
The ground is being laid for a huge surge in public subsidy for arms manufacturers in Europe. In ‘Politico’. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Indrabati Lahiri – European defence companies cash in as military budgets increase
It’s boom time for the merchants of death. In ‘Euronews’. Read the article HERE.