Defence
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There is discord on defence, with growing irritation in the US over what it views as the pretentious posturing of the so-called European
Defence
Initiative.
The US sees falling European
defence
budgets accompanied by new and unnecessary command structures, which merely duplicate the command structure that exists within NATO.
France, Germany, and their allies have a four-part agenda to:1. strengthen EU institutions, with majority voting in the Council of Ministers made easier;2. push decisively toward developing common European foreign and
defence
policies;3. bring about European cooperation on issues relating to crime and immigration;4. most crucially, devise new legal arrangements that remove, forever, the power of Britain or any other recalcitrant member to obstruct the march of European integration.
This fact has long been ignored by firms seeking trade
defence.
More recently, Noel Forgeard, the French co-CEO of the Franco-German aeronautical and
defence
company EADS, was forced to resign under a cloud of suspicion: he sold his EADS shares in March, before the company announced a costly delay in production of the Airbus A380.
Why The European Union Has No Foreign PolicyLONDON: Britain’s Labour government reacted to the crisis in Kosovo by coming out in favour of a stronger
defence
role for the European Union.
Others say that Europe can hardly have a single foreign and
defence
policy when four of its members are neutral.
In the case of
defence
and warfare, unpredictability includes the possibility of young men dying in action.
Cultural diplomacy lies at one end, military and
defence
policy at the other, with aid and trade policy in the middle.
Europe’s failure lies exclusively at the power end of the range, with
defence
and military policy.
Kristol and Kagan specifically advocate a "neo-Reaganite" foreign policy, calling for an increase by one quarter of America's still impressive
defence
budget.
Indeed, the reform will give a boost to much closer European
defence
cooperation by increasing interoperability with major European allies and encouraging joint procurement, joint production and joint management of military investment.
The Cologne summit marked a watershed not just because of a new policy declaration on security and
defence.
Other agreements refer to building an autonomous European
defence
capability.
This article distinguishes NATO from virtually any other defensive alliance in human history, in the sense that it incorporated an open-ended guarantee of collective
defence.
Here was a momentous event in NATO's 52-year history, and you might think that its activation would lead to a process of collective
defence
by NATO.
But the Bush Administration did not want collective
defence
and it did not want NATO to get involved: apart from a small, essentially marginal military contribution by Britain, in essence the US intended to fight this war by itself.
This dilemma is being played out inside the British cabinet, where Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, has argued for an international peace-keeping force to help stabilize Afghanistan, but has been opposed by Geoff Hoon, the British
defence
secretary, who is totally aligned with the Pentagon's hostility to any such proposal.
You cannot say to your allies that this is the supreme moment when we call on the Alliance for collective defence, and then in the next breath say, we don't need you for collective defence, we're going to do it our way.
Britain, France, and Germany have often resented being forced to tag along behind the US on
defence
issues, the EU's smaller members now fear being forcibly co-opted into an EU foreign policy when they have had no say in its development.
In essence, that is what those who stonewall in
defence
of the 1972 ABM Treaty are saying when they reject all options to create anti-ballistic missile defensive systems.
But because Americans and Europeans share the Ukrainian habit of seeing world politics in terms of principles (such as democracy and free trade) they can rely on Ukraine as an active partner in the
defence
of those principles.
These were constrained by upper limits to budget deficits, later elaborated in the Stability and Growth Pact; obligations to intervene in
defence
of particular levels for the euro in external currency markets.
Yet Geoff Hoon, Prime Minister Blair's
defence
minister, as well as his American counterpart, Donald Rumsfeld, remain in office.
Article 23 was designed to set the limits on Hong Kong’s autonomy, and to help ensure that China retained control of security, defence, and foreign policy.
The artist was perturbed, but could find nothing to say in
defence
of his opinion.
"Oh! no! oh, no!" she murmured, "please let me go!" The fear of the male had taken hold of her, that fear which stiffens the muscles in an impulse of defence, even when girls are willing, and feel the conquering approach of man.
In defence, he pretended that Maheu had slipped beneath his door a threatening paper with two cross-bones and a dagger above.
The landlady took up the
defence
of her curie.
So he did not take up the
defence
of Bovary; he did not even make a single remark, and, renouncing his principles, he sacrificed his dignity to the more serious interests of his business.
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