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How realistic is the European Defense Union?
- Kemal İnat
- 16 Kas 2017
- 1 dakikada okunur
On Monday the foreign and security ministers of 23 European Union member states signed an agreement in Brussels, which was regarded as the first step for the creation of a European Defense Union. The agreement, which includes increasing the defense budget, forming military cooperation projects, and readying a cooperative military power in order to respond to a crisis, seems to have caused different reactions among the EU.
This turn of event was not a surprise for some, as following many unsuccessful meetings with US President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Merkel called on newly elected French President Macron to increase military cooperation in order for Europe to “take its fate into its own hands.”
However, one has to ask whether the request of Germany and France is enough to form a “defense union” in the EU.
Considering previous initiatives that were taken and which failed in this regard, it seems difficult for the EU to form a defense union that is independent from NATO.
Just a year after the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community, which was established in 1951, the European Defense Community Treaty, pioneered by France to “keep Germany under control and keep the United States out” failed to pass the country’s own parliament. Thus, Western European countries, including France, where the government failed to convince its own parliament to establish a European defense system, remained under the framework of US-dominated NATO during the Cold War era.
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