The EU’s Insecurity Policy

Karina Rollins / March 18, 2009

For nearly 20 years, the European Union has been gearing up for a “Common Foreign and Security Policy” with the goal of being able to flex some real global muscle.So, Europeans will take care of their own corner of the world instead of waiting around for the U.S. to come to the rescue? This is something the U.S. should welcome, right?

Wrong.

The proposed European defense policy—based on “centralization,” i.e., stripping member countries of their sovereignty—is intended by many Europeans not so much to create a reliable defense, but to provide the much-ballyhooed “counterbalance” to U.S. power. (more…)