{"id":3368,"date":"2025-02-24T18:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T19:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:29:59","slug":"spain-proposes-first-move-towards-european-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/spain-proposes-first-move-towards-european-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain proposes first move towards \u2018European army\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The EU needs to achieve full strategic autonomy with its own military, the country\u2019s foreign minister has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

The EU should develop its rapid deployment forces into the nucleus of the bloc\u2019s own army, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told journalists on Monday prior to attending a meeting of top EU diplomats in Brussels.<\/p>\n

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas noted at the gathering that ministers were left \u201cworried\u201d<\/em> by the recent changes in US foreign policy. Since his inauguration last month, US President Donald Trump has begun reestablishing diplomatic ties with Moscow, while demanding that European nations contribute more to NATO and take responsibility for their own security.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe threat is European and therefore the response has to be European,\u201d<\/em> Albares said.<\/p>\n

The diplomat said he would urge the EU Foreign Affairs Council to reflect on how to boost the continent\u2019s defense capacity.<\/p>\n

\u201cCapabilities that must include the ability to have rapid deployment forces that could even be the embryo of a European army,\u201d <\/em>Albares said. The bloc also needs to achieve \u201cstrategic autonomy\u201d<\/em> and further develop its domestic defense industry and logistics, he added.<\/p>\n

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EU states agreed to develop a Rapid Deployment Capacity (RDC) in 2022, after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict. The measure was envisioned as a coordinated framework of rapid response forces to allow the bloc to quickly react to crisis situations, and was projected to be able to deploy up to 5,000 troops by this year, according to the European Commission.<\/p>\n

Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron, who has floated the idea of a unified European army in the past, said that dissent regarding defense strategy among EU states makes a common force impossible.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky suggested last month that Kiev\u2019s forces could form the basis of \u201can army of Europe,\u201d<\/em> as \u201cdecades of the old relationship between Europe and America are ending\u201d<\/em> and \u201cEurope needs to adjust.\u201d<\/em> He stated that Ukraine is currently \u201cholding back Russia\u201d<\/em> from attacking other European countries.<\/p>\n

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Moscow has repeatedly denied claims that it ever intended to attack the EU or NATO. The idea that Russia wants to attack NATO is \u201ccomplete nonsense, total rubbish,\u201d<\/em> Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EU needs to achieve full strategic autonomy with its own military, the country\u2019s foreign minister has said The EU should develop its rapid deployment forces into the nucleus of the bloc\u2019s own army, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told journalists on Monday prior to attending a meeting of top EU diplomats in Brussels….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}