The EU deploys its army

The EU has agreed to send 3,500 troops to Chad. These soldiers will answer, not to any national capital nor combination of national capitals, but to the EU’s politico-military structures in Brussels. So Javier Solana won't really be a European Foreign Minister? Fair enough, you might say. Except that we keep being assured that there is no such thing as a common European foreign policy, and certainly not a common European defence policy. We have been told over and over again that the appa

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