Germany
Outlines New Strategy for a European Army
Rather than create a
European army all at once, Germany should focus on building it bit by bit,
according to a paper published this month by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
(kaf). Germany should develop “islands of cooperation”—small groups of countries
whose militaries work together—that can be used as “building blocks” of a
pan-European military power, it wrote. To dedicated Trumpet readers, this should
sound very familiar. It is exactly what we described Germany doing in the August
print edition of the Trumpet. Now you can read it in black and white, from a
think tank that describes itself as “closely associated with the Christian
Democratic Union of Germany (cdu)”—the party of Angela Merkel.