Macron Declares NATO Brain Dead. Von Der Leyen Wants a Euro Army
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Wrangling over the UK Election: New generation of Spiral: EU budget reflective Capitalism vs protestors lacks French cop drama of deeper malaise Socialism practical solutions with universal appeal Next year’s budget will harm the EU’s strategic When the United Kingdom goes to the polls next Iraq, Lebanon and Haiti are not crippled by any Now in its eighth season on Canal+ in France Spiral priorities unless the whole system gets a month it will be the most important democratic one institution, but by corrupt behaviours which merits the acclaim it has won in 70 countries across radical overhaul exercise in the country’s modern political history have become endemic the globe, including the United States Pieter Cleppe p.4-5 Madeline Grant p.10 Jack Dickens p.12 Walter Ellis p.18 Issue #13 | November 2019 A fortnightly Newspaper by the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Party | theconservative.online Macron declares NATO brain dead. Von der Leyen wants a Euro army. The British are leaving. Europe needs to wake up. p.2 / p.10 Macron MISFIRES 2 FEATURE theconservative.online theconservative.online FEATURE 3 Russia’s Putin. She pointed out that The former Norwegian prime min- Europe - France and Germany - must ister knows that NATO is having a stand up and defend itself. dodgy moment but will attempt to At first, AKK’s comments were per- walk tall by addressing these issues NATO under friendly fire The EU must stop making up the ceived to be at odds with Macron but head-on. He will have hoped to have - Maggie Pagano - p.2 rules as it goes along - Daniel Hannan MEP, p.13 most commentators now realise they Trump on side after meeting him in Wrangling over the EU budget were in the same vein: Europe must Washington last week. reflective of deeper malaise - Louis de Bonald: The musketeer stand up for itself. She also said that He knows the score. On the day Pieter Cleppe - p.4 who invented sociology - Gerald Germany would not meet its NATO before Macron’s comments, the NATO Warner, p.14 Images - Getty Radwanski Wojtek Photo: Conservatives connect traditional 2% spending target until the 2030s. chief made an important and powerful values with new policies - p.6 Old spymaster Le Carré hasn’t lost “We intend to strengthen European speech to the Korber Global Leaders his touch - David Waywell, p.15 ECR Party’s first ever Liberty Prize cooperation in the field of defence. Dialogue in Berlin, in which he said: goes to Crimean Tatar leader - p.6 The Order of the Day by Eric We have ambitious plans that we “Any attempt to distance Europe Vuillard - John Freeman, p.15 Croatian presidential hopeful want to implement with the other from North America will not only visits Strasbourg - p.6 Don’t look back in anger - Gerald EU members.” she argued, although weaken the transatlantic Alliance, Malone, p.16 Nord Stream 2 network comes she acknowledged the role of NATO it is also risking dividing Europe under fire at ECR Party’s Liberty Music journalism hasn’t died – too. “The European Defence Union is itself. European unity cannot replace Conference, Kyiv - p.7 it’s just changed channel - John always oriented towards cooperation transatlantic unity. I strongly wel- McKie, p.17 Ukraine must stamp down on with NATO, which remains the anchor come efforts to strengthen European corruption to earn EU trust - p.7 Jesus saves and Kanye misses the of security in Europe. We want com- defence … which can enhance capa- rebound - Joseph Rachman, p.17 plementarity, not competition.” bilities and burden sharing within Instead of demonising fossil fuel companies, we should work with Spiral: French cop drama with This was a critical about turn by NATO. But the European Union can- them - Bill Wirtz, p.8 universal appeal - Walter Ellis, p.18 AKK as for decades Germans have been not defend Europe.” taught - and have accepted the view - “This is partly about mili- Spanish election dominated by Doctor Sleep: Worthy sequel to Catalan question gives boost to The Shining lacks the genius of that Germany’s interests as a geopoliti- tary might,” he said. “After Vox - Gerald Warner, p.9 Kubrick’s masterpiece - Alexander cal force are not to be pursued. That no Brexit, 80% of NATO’s Larman, p.19 The military alliance formed after the Second World War longer seems to be the case. defence expenditure British general election turning into a two-horse race - Jack Scorsese and Ford Coppola are to protect Europe is at a crossroads, with some in the EU Like Macron, AKK fears the threat will come from Dickens, p.9 right – Marvel films aren’t real of a rising China and that the EU non-EU Allies. cinema - Alastair Benn, p.19 wanting it strengthened and others pushing for a European And Germany Leader column: Reform and will become marginalised. While rebuild NATO - p.10 The Charterhouse of Parma by army and a dangerous accommodation with Russia. both accept the role of the US within will be the only Stendhal - Gerald Warner, p.20 NATO, they also fear America’s EU member Capitalism vs Socialism - Madeline Europe needs a proper debate about its defence needs leading one Grant, p.10 Beirut: The Paris of the Middle resolve to be part of a broader alliance East has reinvented itself - Mattie is diminishing. of NATO’s New generation of protestors Brignal, p.21 ast week, NATO chief, Jens isolationist, and wants to prepare for Timothy Less from the University battlegroups discovers you can’t always get by Maggie Pagano what you want - Jack Dickens, p.12 Vercelli: The rice capital of Europe Stoltenberg, was crowned the potential collapse of the alliance of Cambridge’s Centre for Geopolitics in the east of - Bruce Palling, p.22 “Diplomat of the Year” by bolstering Europe’s capabilities. and Grand Strategy, says: “Without the Alliance. Inside Lebanon’s protest by Foreign Policy, one of Macron’s timing could not have More pertinently, he shed doubts on political unity, there are no common It is also movement - Mattie Brignal, p.12 Speaking the language of wine - the security guarantees enshrined in about geog- Guy Chatfield, p.22 LWashington’s most influential global been worse. His remarks about NATO interests to defend - hence Macron’s A new generation of refugee cities affairs magazines. On accepting the came just days before the 30th anni- Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, comments that NATO is brain dead.” raphy. From can help prevent another migrant Culture Digest: The best of honour on his visit to Washington versary of the Berlin Wall coming claiming: “I don’t know what Article Paradoxically, at the same time that Norway in the crisis - Pieter Cleppe, p.13 Europe’s art and culture - p.23 earlier this month the secretary gen- down and went down across Europe 5 will mean tomorrow.” His eyes are tensions are rising within the NATO North, to Turkey in eral hailed NATO as a “unique diplo- like an old lead Zeppelin. As well as perhaps on Turkey. family, so have relations between the South, and the US, members not mirror what Russia is doing. We do guarantee will be conditional, and real matic force multiplier,” making the being ungrateful, his remarks were Macron is not the only one to ques- Russia and NATO become more Canada and the UK in along with not want a new arms race. We do not security will derive from ad hoc alli- case that “when 29 nations speak with simply rude considering how much tion the integrity of the alliance. tense. Some specialists say that they the West. All are key to keep- him. Indeed, want another Cold War. And we have ances among NATO members with one voice, their voice is more powerful NATO has done to keep Western President Trump himself has been are at their worst since the end of the ing Europe safe.” the chances of get- no intention of deploying new land- common interests.” The Conservative is a fortnightly newspaper available in print and online than any other in the world”. Europe safe during the Cold War even ruder about NATO’s existence, Cold War, as witnessed by the recent Those are strong words from ting a unified European Army which based nuclear missiles in Europe.” These alliances will operate at published and owned by the ECR Party, formerly known as Alliance of But has Stoltenberg spoken too years. arguing only a few years ago that it strengthening of NATO “battle- Stoltenberg. But will they be enough to would have anything like the clout of More positively, he added: “NATO the regional level, with the Nordics the Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE). soon? Not all NATO was obsolete. He has groups” along the Baltic States. stop France and Germany from beef- Article V off the ground are remote, if allies remain committed to effec- and the central Europeans tighten- members are speaking also criticised states The four NATO battlegroups sta- ing up the European Defence Union not delusional. Don’t forget that 22 of tive arms control, disarmament and ing their collective security arrange- The Conservative can be read online at: with one voice. Some such as Germany for tioned in the Baltic have recently been to replace NATO? One of the prob- the 27 EU countries are also members non-proliferation. And to open and ments, he says, and that small states in theconservative.online are speaking with many With Chancellor Angela Merkel on her freeloading off US strengthened in the biggest reinforce- lems with a more meaty European of NATO.