The room for manoeuvre in European defence: between internal weights and pressures coming from across the Atlantic
lecture presented at a conference, French Institute in Budapest, Budapest, 27 January 2006
Language of the original publication: French
The European approach insisting on the synergy between civil and military means in crisis management is by far the best adapted to the challenges the world is facing today. Nevertheless, the determination of the European countries to follow their own path (vis-a-vis an America obnubilated by her unshakable belief in the invincibility of technological superiority) remains to be shown. The more so as the United States, this time in a very rational way, had identified for a long time the two fields of crucial importance from the point of view of the maintenance of the European dependence. Namely ensuring American preeminence and sabotaging any attempt at European emancipation in the field of operational planning and command on the one hand, and in that of an autonomous technological and industrial base on the other.
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(Hajnalka Vincze, The room for manoeuvre in European defence: between internal weights and pressures coming from across the Atlantic, lecture presented at a conference, French Institute in Budapest, Budapest, 27 January 2006, 11,369 characters)
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