If the EU had ever really been about keeping the peace, then it would have had a Treaty clause prohibiting any member-state from engaging in military action without the consent of all the other member-states.
I am not advocating such a provision. I am merely pointing out that it would have been there.
As it is, the Treaty clause instead pretty much requires them all to go to war if one of them demands it, as France has now done.
The EU is not a means to peace. It is a means to war. Be that just war or unjust war, it is war.
And that war has now begun.
Indeed, article 222 of the Lisbon treaty, eschewed in this instance by the French, says that “the union and its member states shall act jointly in a spirit of solidarity if a member state is the object of a terrorist attack or the victim of a natural or man-made disaster. The union shall mobilise all the instruments at its disposal, including the military resources made available by the member states."This would hand a major role to the European commission.
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