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Opinion: For the EU strategic autonomy is as yet only an aspiration, but one worth pursuing
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Opinion: For the EU strategic autonomy is as yet only an aspiration, but one worth pursuing

27 September 2021
The establishment of AUKUS, and subsequent submarine dispute, has exposed once more the EU's strategic vulnerability. At present the EU has no common foreign policy and no European armed forces capability, and strategic autonomy remains an illusion. But it is not a wrong goal to pursue, argues Maximiliaan van Lange in this op-ed.
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Monday Commentary: The world is on a military spending spree
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Monday Commentary: The world is on a military spending spree

13 October 2020
It is easy to succumb to the pressures of the arms lobby and to rush into a military spending spree without understanding that there are still alternatives to this, and that these alternatives have not yet been exhausted, argues Dennis Sammut in this week's Monday Commentary on commonspace.eu
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