European security model
Népszabadság Online 25 October 2004
Language of the original publication: Hungarian
Coward, powerless, free-rider, softie, paper tiger. Here are some of the adjectives employed on the other side of the Atlantic to describe European attitude in the field of security. This might even be comprehensible, if one looks from the self-generated spiral of the US defence budget (which amounts to about half of the world’s military expenditure) or from the distance of the innumerable space gadgets whose reliability as regards intelligence is of public notoriety since the conflict in Iraq. But seen both feet on the ground, the picture is not necessarily the same.
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(Hajnalka Vincze, European security model, Népszabadság Online 25 October 2004, 7,804 characters)
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