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"Under the cloak of so-called mutual defence and ‘solidarity’ clauses, the European Parliament is asking the EU to commit further to a European defence policy. The mutual defence clause (Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union) provides for an ‘obligation’ for Member States to react ‘by all the means in their power’ in the event of armed aggression against a fellow Member State, which goes further than NATO’s mutual assistance clause, given that unarmed attacks will also be concerned. The solidarity clause (Article 222 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) paves the way for military interventions within the European Union, in particular in the event of a terrorist attack, or a natural or man-made disaster. Can social unrest and strikes be considered as ‘man-made disasters’? This report prefers military approaches to initiatives for peace and even to civil defence measures both inside and outside the Union. In particular, it presses for greater militarisation and armament of the EU. Such encouragement is ill-timed, to say the least, when we consider the warmongering tendencies of some Member States and when, in the height of irony, the EU has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."@en1
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