How will closer EU-NATO cooperation affect EU-Member States who are not members of NATO?
Well, those who are in favour of a closer EU-NATO cooperation simultaneously argue that as a prerequisite, the EU’s existing military capacities have to be further developed and the resources spent for military capacities have to be massively increased. So everybody in the EU, NATO member or not, could face huge pressure to increase its military budget and eventually to buy NATO compatible armament from the big weapon companies. Furthermore the pressure to join NATO or it’s ironically named light version, the “Partnership for Peace”, would increase. The formerly neutral states are already taking part – the last EU-member not affiliated to NATO, Cyprus, is at the moment facing a campaign supported by the European Parliament to join this instrument of NATO influence. In addition there is a real risk that EU-Member States who are not members of NATO could end up with having no say how, when and under what circumstances European capacities are used in order to support wars of NATO. To name
