"EU battlegroups failing due to lack of cost sharing" Topic
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| Deadles | 01 Dec 2016 3:50 p.m. PST |
Europe's (EU) battlegroup concept is failing because the costs are being borne by those nations providing the troops and equipment rather than by the European Union (EU) as a whole, a senior German official said on 30 November.Speaking at the Berlin Security Conference (BSC) 2016, Bettina Cadenbach, Director for Security Policy at the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany said that the EU battlegroups that were first established in 1999 are not working as intended due to an unwillingness by those nations not directly involved to pay for them. "The use of the battlegroups has failed so far as the cost of their deployments has to be borne by the nations [taking part]," Cadenbach said, adding: "Fair burden sharing is needed."
janes.com/article/65862/eu-battlegroups-failing-due-to-lack-of-cost-sharing |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 01 Dec 2016 4:31 p.m. PST |
Imagine that. Isn't this what some people think of America's NATO commitments? |
| Bede19002 | 01 Dec 2016 5:43 p.m. PST |
You're right. I think I heard about some Presidential candidate who was ridiculed for saying the same thing. |
| Mako11 | 01 Dec 2016 10:38 p.m. PST |
2017 shall be an interesting year. |
| Jcfrog | 02 Dec 2016 10:19 a.m. PST |
Or some want others to pay for their armies by putting them abroad to counter an imaginary threat. Helps the bottomless debts.
Richelieu ws already doing it in the 17th century. |
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is back from Council of Five Nations.