Faced with a multiplication of crises, the European Union wants to get a new rapid intervention military force. A proposal supported by 14 countries will be discussed for the first time on May 6 by the defense ministers in Brussels, a discussion that involves the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, Belga news agency reports.
The European intervention force will be made up of troops and equipment that can be made available to NATO, the United Nations and the European Union. The project is supported by France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Greece, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Ireland and Slovenia.
This force would involve 5,000 soldiers and should be equipped with transportation means capable of bringing them with their equipment to the theater of intervention. “This is a proposal. Nothing will be decided on Thursday. This will be the first discussion and it will be followed by many others, “insisted one of the European officials questioned about the project.