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Press Release 8 June 2007: Newropeans / US missile-defence bases in the EU: Where are the representatives of the European common interest within the EU?

June 8th, 2007

According to Newropeans, the answer is clear: nowhere! Neither among European Union leaders nor within NATO. The EU Commission, Council and Parliament are unable to shape up or represent the collective interest of 500 million European citizens! Their members all come from political parties with a narrow national vision. Thus they stay mute or inactive in the face of Bush administration’s provocations. As to moribund NATO, it no longer plays its role.

However, an overwhelming majority of citizens are opposed to letting Europe become the playground of Washington’s and Moscow ‘s battle of interests. However, a large majority of Poles and Czechs, the two countries directly concerned by hosting the US missile defence bases, are opposed to the project. However, the « threat » that the shield is meant to block, is as real as Saddam Hussein’s « mass destruction weapons » were.

According to Newropeans, it is now obvious that in the area of defence policy, no Member State should have the right to negotiate on its own in a bilateral dialogue with Washington or Moscow: all decisions made in the area of defence and foreign policies in relation with the US or Russia must be prepared and implemented at the EU level. Therefore it should not belong to the Czech or Polish government to decide on their own about whether they will host or not non-European missiles on their territory.

It is time to reorganise NATO and to create a European pillar of the Alliance, to be managed and run by the EU, where EU member states would prepare and define together their transatlantic-related decisions. Any decision reaching beyond one member-state’s territory must belong to the EU’s exclusive field of competence, in defence-related issues or in any other ones.

Only an independent trans-European political movement such as Newropeans can provide credible and workable answers to our aspirations in terms of future, independence and common security.

In response to these expectations, Newropeans will present candidates in the 27 EU member states to stand the 2009 European elections. Newropeans has recently adopted its international political programme for the EU, which constitutes a major component of its trans-European political offer in June 2009.

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