Europe's foreign policy establishment has reacted with instinctive dismissiveness to Macron’s European Sovereigntism. They fail to see how discredited their own ideology has become.

I found this on Reddit and I read the whole thing, I thought it was interesting.

The author argues in favour of greater European independence on defence (and less dependence on the US). The article is a year old but I think it’s still relevant.

The author is apparently a journalist with France 24, a French state-owned media company, so you could say that makes him biased in favour of the French position. But I think he still makes valid points.

  • WestBromwich@feddit.ukOPEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    for military cooperation I think it might be good not to be too trigger happy

    True. I guess maybe for some actions, a two-thirds majority of votes could be required. I dunno.

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      Which goes back to the point about France and Germany being able to control the momentum with a third of the population.

      • WestBromwich@feddit.ukOPEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        With a mathematically representative EU parliament then France and Germany shouldn’t be able to control anything by themselves because like you say, their combined population is less than half of the EU