2022-03-28
Much has in the past been written about PESCO and the labyrinthine network of treaties and agreements that underpin the EU's defence posture. The UK was famously equivocal about what parts of it we did or did not support, amongst much controversy over how we could be both leaving the EU and staying within its defence agreements.
I'm not entirely sure whether or not these arguments were ever really resolved, but today we have an article from Investigate Europe that has a look at the how the EU military is composed and who benefits.
"These huge arms producers are very much intertwined with governments and even competitors. They are also partly owned by the same American funds that control important parts of their -American competitors’ shares"
Perhaps we can see where this is going ...
"when Investigate Europe tried to arrange a visit to a battle group that is on stand-by in Italy, there was no response. In the end, an army representative explained to our reporter that they had to find out what the EU battle group actually was"
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