The defence Ministers of the EU approved the creation of a common intelligence school
BRUSSELS, Nov 19 — RIA Novosti, Alexander Shishlo. Defence Ministers of countries-members of EU at a meeting in Brussels approved the project of creation of the General intelligence school (JEIS), told RIA Novosti in the EU Council.
Upstairs
“JEIS together with the countries-members of EU centre of excellence (in the field of counterintelligence — ed.), NATO and national intelligence and security will carry out education and training in intelligence disciplines and other specific areas of the intelligence staff of the member States of the EU”, — said the Agency interlocutor.
The project will involve 25 of the 28 member countries of the EU, except the UK, Denmark and Malta.
The creation of a special forces the EU is one of the projects in the framework of permanent structured cooperation of the countries of the community in the field of defense and security.
The need to create supranational authorities and joint forces intelligence European Union prescribed in the Maastricht Treaty, but still in the EU there was no consensus on the establishment of a common European intelligence service.
A unified army and security Council
In early November, the President of France Emmanuel macron suggested to create independent of the United States of a “common European army”.
“We can’t protect Europeans, if you decide to create a real European army. We must have a Europe that protects itself, mostly on their own, without the United States,” he told the radio station Europe 1.
However, last week German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a proposal to create a European security Council.
She also supported the idea of creating a common European army.
Such an army, I’m sure Merkel would have shown the world that between European countries impossible a new war.