“The ‘European contingents’ who would like to send the president of a community nation and that of a non -EU nation They do not send a fax to be sent And in order to be able to make a press release. Especially those of the other nations “. It is the stop that comes from the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto who in a post on X replies, even without mentioning them, to the positions of the French president Macron and the British Premier Starmer.
“If we speak on behalf of Europe – Crosetto warns – We should have the creation of confronting the other nations And this did not happen for the military aspects of the matter. That I know to be mainly military “.
In the long post, the defense owner recalls that “defense, in the European treaties, is the competence of the individual nations. A ‘European defense’ can exist only as a sum of national defenses. In ways similar to those born. Like NATO does not have its army, a navy, one of its aeronautics but is based on national contributions that operate together and are coordinated by NATO, the same would be for Europe “.
“So – underlines the minister in reference to the debate that opened on the perspective of the sending of Italian soldiers in Ukraine – comment on something that nobody knows anything if not two foreign presidents And that, as regards Italy, like any international commitment, it should have parliamentary, multiple and complex passages, to authorize and finance, It does not seem to me a useful way on which to commit the internal political debate. Parliamentary passages that would be subsequently verified with scruple and attention to all the technical-logistic-operational-capacitive aspects and the consequent needs of financial resources. A small contribution to better direct the debate “.
“For two years – adds Crosetto – I have repeatedly asked for a Bipartisan parliamentary commitment to review the law that regulates the sending of international missions and its mechanisms. For as many years, they have been a voice that declaims in the desert. In the meantime, however, I read statements made only to fill the agencies of people who want to explain to me that everything can be done immediately. Unfortunately, even if you want, you can’t do it. Why There are a constitution and a legislative system that do not allow alternative and faster ways. Theme on which I try to ask for the umpteenth time for a bipartisan intervention that would be very important to ensure a defense more ready to face the difficult times in which we live “.