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UNELECTED Eurocrats unveiled plans for closer defence co-operation yesterday amid concern over US president-elect Donald Trump’s commitment to imperialist alliance Nato.
The European Commission said the multibillion-euro plan would fund research into areas like encrypted software or robotics and boost investment in joint projects across member states.
It also aims to ease rules restricting defence procurement across borders and turn the EU’s space programme to defence purposes.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
As US hegemony crumbles and Trump becomes ever more unpredictable, European powers cling to the pact’s militarist agenda in a bid to disguise their own increasing irrelevance, writes CHRIS NINEHAM
