Re: NATO worked for many reasons, chief among them, in my view, was the fact that it had a "first among equals" -- the U.S.
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Greens/EFA consider that in a Union with up to 28 members, it will become indispensable that those Member states willing to move ahead on the path of integration are enabled to do so, with full respect for the common institutional framework and the existing rules and regulations. Unfortunately, the current Presidency's proposals on enhanced co-operation are ambiguous and unsatisfactory: in fact, we had proposed that the possibility of veto by a member state be completely abolished and that the EP be closely associated to all phases of the procedure. Instead, the cumbersome and complex system envisaged does not avoid the risks of breaking the internal cohesion and dynamic of the EU, by making the enhanced co-operation very difficult to apply within the EU institutional framework.
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I believe this "enhanced cooperation" thing will be applied to military cooperation as well.... so that no "first among equals" will be necessary on a permanent basis.
For instance, the French, the Brits and the Belgians might join together on some African "peacekeeping mission"; likewise, Germans, Poles, and Italians might get together on an Eastern European operation; and so on...
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