{"id":7280,"date":"2024-01-08T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=7280"},"modified":"2024-01-08T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:20:09","slug":"italian-foreign-minister-calls-for-formation-of-eu-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/08\/italian-foreign-minister-calls-for-formation-of-eu-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian foreign minister calls for formation of EU army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reuters &#8211; <\/em>The European Union should form its own combined army that could play a role in peacekeeping and preventing conflict, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said.<\/p><p>In an interview with Italian newspaper La Stampa, Tajani said that closer European cooperation on defence was a priority for the Forza Italia party that he leads.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;If we want to be peacekeepers in the world, we need a European military. And this is a fundamental precondition to be able to have an effective European foreign policy,&#8221; he said in an interview published on Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure><p>&#8220;In a world with powerful players like the United States, China, India, Russia &#8211; with crises from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific &#8211; Italian, German, French or Slovenian citizens can only be protected by something that already exists, namely the European Union,&#8221; he added.<\/p><p>European defence cooperation has risen up the political agenda since Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>However, efforts have been more focused on NATO expansion, with EU nation Finland joining the alliance last year and Sweden also on track to become a member.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure><p>Tajani also said the 27-nation EU should streamline its leadership and have a single presidency, rather than the current structure of a European Council president and a European Commission president.<\/p><p>The foreign minister became leader of Forza Italia following the death of Silvio Berlusconi last year.<\/p><p>European Parliament elections in June will be the first gauge of the party&#8217;s popularity after the loss of its charismatic former leader.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/italian-foreign-minister-calls-formation-eu-army-2024-01-07\/\">Read more here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The European Union should form its own combined army that could play a role in peacekeeping and preventing conflict, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said. In an interview&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1734,1735,1736],"class_list":{"0":"post-7280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-eu-army","9":"tag-formation-eu-army","10":"tag-italian-foreign-minister"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Military-Eu.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7282,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions\/7282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}