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Is the EU at War with ISIS?

This week the Member States of the EU vote/decide on whether or not to support the French request for support under Article 42.7 of Treaty on European Union.

Quote from EU Observer:


"The French president announced that on Tuesday France will invoke the European mutual defense clause.

Rather than article 222 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which requires assistance when a member state is "the object of a terrorist attack", France chose to trigger article 42.7 of the Treaty on European Union.

This article states that "if a member state is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other member states shall have towards it an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power."

Hollande also warned the EU: "If Europe doesn't control its external borders, then internal borders will return. That will be the destruction of the EU".

Newsflash: France's request for activation of Article 42.7 has been accepted by the EU Council: "Ministers expressed their unanimous and full support to France and their readiness to provide all the necessary aid and assistance."


Few people realise that the EU is now in control of the Member State's foreign and security policy and is fully responsible for external borders. (See Extent of EU Sovereignty - check the link if you are sceptical).   The Paris atrocity is "crunch time" for the EU Council - either it acts on behalf of its members or it fails.  The President of the EU Council, Donald Tusk, has been in talks with Obama and Putin at the G20 meeting in Turkey, he represents us all now, lets hope he knows what he is doing.

The British media are so fanatically pro-EU that they are failing to mention that France being at war means, as Hollande says, the EU is at war and hence we in the UK are at war.  Why don't they mention it?  These are the probable reasons: firstly, the idea that the French can commit us to war via the EU might worry people, secondly the EU will be as incompetent about a war as they were about the migration crisis, an area where they also have sovereignty, thirdly it is possible to wriggle out of Art. 42.7.

It is also possible that the media have just failed to understand that Article 42.7 is about an external aggressor and so implies armies being sent to Syria to defeat it and bombers being sent to Syria to bomb it.  Perhaps they haven't read Article 24(3) of the Treaty on European Union that enforces EU Council decisions:

"3. The Member States shall support the Union’s external and security policy actively and unreservedly in a spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity and shall comply with the Union’s action in this area."

and haven't heard that there are now no vetoes.

Fortunately we are only at the stage of invoking article 42.7, which still allows the UK Parliament to block going to war, however, if the EU decides full war is needed then off we go...or leave the EU.

EU Countries are now mulling over their response to the French request and EU Council declaration.

Stop-press, French request tests the EU: British, Germans, French are all seeking Parliamentary approval for expanded military action,  although Italy and Spain have turned down the request.

 So much for European solidarity. When the EU has a full Constitution this backsliding on Council decisions will be stopped.


On the subject of the EU, the press has also failed to mention that the EU controls the French and British seats on the UN Security Council (See The EU and British Defence Policy).   Taking the British into full union with the EU is like leading sheep to slaughter!

17/11/15

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