{"id":1145,"date":"2016-09-08T19:34:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T19:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2016-09-08T19:34:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T19:34:57","slug":"post-brexit-eu-moves-toward-deeper-military-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2016\/09\/08\/post-brexit-eu-moves-toward-deeper-military-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"POST-BREXIT, EU MOVES TOWARD DEEPER MILITARY INTEGRATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : The Times<\/p>\n

By Bruno Waterfield<\/p>\n

EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini told ambassadors yesterday she would table the \u201croad map\u201d to take advantage of \u201cpolitical space\u201d opened by the Brexit vote.<\/p>\n

Her plans for military structures able \u201cto act autonomously\u201d from NATO have led to fears that the EU is seeking to rival the alliance that has been the primary structure since 1949….<\/p>\n

After the Brexit vote, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy and countries in central eastern Europe see a new chance to press ahead with deeper EU military integration without British opposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the political space today to do things that were not really doable in previous years,\u201d Ms Mogherini told the EU ambassadors….<\/p>\n

The blueprint envisages countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland creating permanent military structures to act on behalf of the EU under a clause in the Lisbon Treaty that has never been used. The proposals will include \u201ctackling the procedural, financial and political obstacles\u201d to the deployment of the EU\u2019s battle groups, 18 national battalions available but never used for military missions.<\/p>\n

She will also propose to \u201cchange institutional structures, to be more imaginative\u201d including an EU military planning and \u00adoperations headquarters in Brussels that could be a rival to NATO. \u201cMore effective civilian and military planning might need a specific structure and we will look into this kind of institutional innovation as well,\u201d Ms Mogher\u00adini said yesterday.<\/p>\n

A timetable for the plan will be discussed at a meeting of 27 EU leaders \u2014 excluding British Prime Minister Theresa May \u2014 at a summit in Bratislava next week. Diplomats said Britain had dropped its opposition.<\/p>\n

NATO officials have expressed concerns that the proposals will create rivalry and challenge the alliance\u2019s primacy as the main defence structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced : The Times By Bruno Waterfield EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini told ambassadors yesterday she would table the \u201croad map\u201d to take advantage of \u201cpolitical space\u201d opened by the Brexit vote. Her plans for military structures able \u201cto act autonomously\u201d from NATO have led to fears that the EU is seeking to rival… Continue reading POST-BREXIT, EU MOVES TOWARD DEEPER MILITARY INTEGRATION<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[419,709,266,495,545,953,66,673,509,952],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-britain","tag-eu","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-italy","tag-mogherini","tag-nato","tag-poland","tag-spain","tag-theresa-may","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}