What does this mean?

EU public puts more trust in the EU to spend defence cash wisely than national governments?

Credit to Bruegel for report / graph

'No danger of an EU Army' say Remainers

EU public opinion begs to differ.

Credit to Bruegel for report / graph

Unfortunately the lack of imagination on EU defence threatens to erode the UK’s national security. 🚒 5/5

Or is it just nobody has any new ideas and re-joining EU defence is the best they’ve got? 🤔 4/5

Is it institutional inertia that keeps them in EU defence? 🚛 3/5

Why is that? Is it because of secret pro-EU elements in the parties? 🇪🇺 2/5

If we’re perfectly honest, the stance of both political parties can be kindly described as “sleepwalking” into an EU Defence Force. 😴 1/5

1 – The EU Battlegroups are mostly untested, with very little experience🧯 (2/5)

That second point:

Split foreign policy makes an EU army totally unworkable🤯

Even Brexiteers claim combined EU exercises pose “no threat” to UK sovereignty, but it begs the question:

Do we want the UK in a defence structure that excludes key English-speaking allies US and Canada?

(5/5)

Why is the EU conducting exercises excluding NATO allies like UK, US and Canada? (1/5)

So... Will 'Permanent Structured Cooperation' (PESCO) lead to an EU army? 🐸

(3/3)

🐸EU's Frog-Boiler Process:

'integration in Europe has been always incremental, and often ‘forged in crises’ (Monnet 1978)' (1/3)

13 years as Dutch PM, NATO's top candidate never once paid NATO minimum 2% of GDP.
As NATO meets today, how can Mark Rutte have any credibility as the new Secretary-General?
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'I'm not sure stopping exports to Israel would make any difference.'

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Tin-foil hat moment🤯

Is lax UK Defence Spending an excuse to rely more heavily on EU’s PESCO?

TBC!

As everything EU, truth is hidden by bland language:

Under this agreement, the British Army will be absorbed into wider EU forces …and UK sovereignty too!🚨

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“PESCO” stands for “permanent structured cooperation” - for EU states to “structurally integrate” their militaries 🚨

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Governments since May have been really keen on EU “PESCO” membership🚨

(the word 'consider' below was removed under May Govt)

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