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A European battlegroup made in UK. Yes Yes !

British Army's Exercise Dragon in Poland (Credit: MOD/Crown - B2 Archive)
British Army's Exercise Dragon in Poland (Credit: MOD/Crown - B2 Archive)

(BRUSSELS2) This is the irony of history. At the very moment when the British are preparing to leave the Union, they will have, in the next six months, from July 1, a rapid reaction force (battlegroup) under their command and made up largely of subjects of His Gracious Majesty (along with Nordics, Irish and Balts).

The famous invasion of the United Kingdom by the European army as the Daily mail said a few days ago (after smoking and drinking a lot) will certainly not take place (Read: Big news! The European army exists. The Daily Mail met her). But it would rather be quite a reversal if, for the first time, where the European Union engages a battlegroup outside, it is the British who go to pound the pavement or fly in the sand under the 12-star blue flag.

This remains theory for the moment... Because until now, even when the conditions seemed to be met, the European Union's Defense Ministers have always hesitated to move from theory to practice. If I were a bookmaker, after having lost a lot on the Brexit polls, I would therefore not play, to fill myself up, on this kind of commitment, or else at least 100 to 1!

(Nicolas Gros-Verheyde)

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

One thought on “A European battlegroup made in UK. Yes Yes !"

  • What worries me is that the Americans, via their NATO, are strengthening their military potential in all EU countries, in the near periphery, or less close to Russia. The British are only preparing a new complementary "coalition".. The British are indeed the unconditional saviors of the USA,... They are therefore only the "relays" of decisions across the Atlantic.. The only solution for all European countries: to leave the American NATO, to create – really – a European defense, and welcoming the other “European”, Russia, in order to mark the contours of a Europe as De Gaulle wanted, without the Americans….. It was Sarkozy who plunged our country back into in American dependency, and isn't it Hollande who wants to reinstall American bases on our territory?… Everything seems to be in place for a confrontation of the Americans (and their boxes of tools of war (our flesh-to- guns), against Russia. Am I wrong?

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